Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [conj] [pron] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 2 | ‘ I think the only thing now which would prevent his marrying her was if he discovered he was still in love with your niece . ’ |
| 3 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 4 | He says it 's because it makes him look naff , but it 's more than that . |
| 5 | It 's because you like him a little too much — or , to be honest , you 're drawn to him a little too fiercely . |
| 6 | It 's because you love him that you feel like killing him and wiping him out of your life . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's because you love him that you feel like killing him ! |
| 8 | I know he 's happy where he is but I miss him . |
| 9 | I suppose it was because we know he 's been highly-strung lately — his peculiar behaviour at the airport , for a start — that it took longer than it should have done for me to think over properly what had happened . |
| 10 | I liked to think it was because they thought he 'd failed , that our survival in the mountains had been his humiliation , but I would have to admit this might have been mere wishful thinking . |
| 11 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether it was because I ignored him that he threw the drink over me , ’ she added . |
| 13 | Colin Parry , 37 , a personnel officer , wept as he said his 12-year-old son would never be the way he was but they wanted him to live and they would make a life for him . |
| 14 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 15 | I knew more or less where he was and I knew he had not been recaptured — that was all . |
| 16 | He said he hoped he was and I embraced him . |
| 17 | Oh he was a great lad what a great big strong looking fine looking man he was when we knew him . |
| 18 | They knew where he was if they wanted him . |