Example sentences of "he be [prep] [noun] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel crouched against the wall , watching him as though he were in truth the wolf her imagination had conjured up , and waiting until her fluttering pulse had steadied before moving again . |
| 2 | The document states that Richard Walter Jenkins shall ‘ absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the surname of the parent and shall bear the surname of the adopter and shall be held out to the world and in all respects treated as if he were in fact the child of the adopter ’ . |
| 3 | His job is rated Grade B on the Civil Service Scale , so he is on £31,747 a year — a figure that has risen dramatically from the £21,000 he started on in February 1989 . |
| 4 | He is in fact a figure of considerable historical interest . |
| 5 | Dramatic irony allows the reader to know that he is in fact the son of the ‘ Lost Prince ’ , and a lost prince himself , rather than , as he supposes , one of many Samavians of high birth long in exile . |
| 6 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 7 | In 1974 he was on board the Glomar Challenger , for Leg 37 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project . |
| 8 | This morning I spoke briefly to Terry Waite while he was on board the aircraft returning home and was able to express the delight that I and the whole country felt at his safe return and at Mr. Sutherland 's release . |
| 9 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 10 | The task of the Prime Minister was unremitting , for he was on duty every minute of the day and night and must know all that was going on in the Government . |
| 11 | Word of his fuel-injected mouth was enough to secure a casting for Dance Energy in ‘ 89 , and originally he was to co-present the programme beside Prince 's former dancer , Cat . |
| 12 | Trevelyan wrote during the course of the , of the , of the war , and it was of course a book which was read by enormous numbers of people erm particularly after the end of the war , and he was of course the nephew of erm Macaulay , and therefore he 's in line with another of the great books on English history which were written in the middle of the nineteenth century , Macaulay 's A History of England , which also had as many sales as Trevelyan 's . |
| 13 | He was by origin a Londoner , but spent more than half his life in Bishop 's Castle and will be remembered with affection by many people in the district . |
| 14 | He was by trade a painter-stainer , a craft which in 1581 included face painters , history painters , arms ( heraldic ) painters and house painters ; Treswell was probably an arms painter , for he painted streamers and banners for several City companies . |
| 15 | He said " When the employee was in the Kingsbridge office he was in effect the Kingsbridge office . |
| 16 | He was in effect the news " general " and I was the most junior of his three assistants . |
| 17 | He was in fact a man of two worlds , as he would always be . |
| 18 | He was in fact a BA ( 3rd class , Geography ) from the University of Hull ( graduated 1948 ) . |
| 19 | He was in fact a Congregationalist , a member of the church of Thomas Goodwin [ q.v. ] , and John Collins [ q.v . ] , |
| 20 | Clearly not your average Pennine Way walker , he was in fact a botanist called Mike Prosser , who had been contracted by the Nature Conservancy Council to survey the area for species of rare plants and flowers which are known to flourish in certain areas of Teesdale — given the right , exceedingly rare conditions . |
| 21 | Ultimately , the man convinced me he was in fact a window-cleaner , starting about half past three to four o'clock . |
| 22 | The evidence at the trial proved that he was in fact a highwayman . |
| 23 | As Juliet scurried shocked to the cocktail cabinet , Charles asked himself whether he was in fact an alcoholic . |
| 24 | He was in fact an employee rather than an independent agent and had worked for the defendants for 17 years . |