Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 2 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 3 | But he had been there — he had watched someone he loved being drawn deeper and deeper into the morass . |
| 4 | ‘ Newley must realize that someone he knows is connected with the theft . ’ |
| 5 | Despite himself he had been touched by her fierce defence of him , and although he frequently entertained Mrs Darrell he only did so because she was the widow of his dead friend . |
| 6 | As he describes himself he had been , during the nineties at Cambridge and afterwards , a rather worldly , flippant creature , erm but after this experience something changed within him , and he says , and I suppose , I think we must believe that it is true , that it was on account of this sort of moral mystical experience that his whole attitude to the world was changed , and he was provided with the peculiar moral strength to fight the battles , as he later did fight , against war and other such things . |
| 7 | On the other hand , by refraining from identifying himself he risked being bludgeoned or arrested . |
| 8 | The assemblage of lands which he ruled is traditionally called the Angevin Empire and the name is important . |
| 9 | He reckons NeXTStep can do development five to ten times faster than other technologies such as SunSoft Inc 's Solaris or Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4.2 which he says are weak development solutions . |
| 10 | He starts by looking at DRG 's pension fund surplus , which he says is worth £25m . |
| 11 | He says that I never feel randy these days , that I 'm ‘ cold ’ , and that the anorexia is stopping my hormones , which he says is stopping me from feeling sexy . |
| 12 | His aim , he added , is to build SyQuest into a $1,000m-a-year company by concentrating on the removable disk sector , which he says is high-profit . |
| 13 | VISystems marketing manager John Phillips claims that 99% of the source code can be retained using VIS/TP , which he says is faster than Bull 's competing Unikix product ( UX No 390 ) , which emulates CICS . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , DEC watcher Terry Shannon of Gander Resources claims DEC taped out an Alpha Lite LC ( for low cost ) chip last month and believes it is for the so-called Triumph Alpha PC which he says is scheduled to move next March . |
| 15 | He 's not impressed with the Lamont-Gregory briquette which he says is not the consistency the British market expects and adds that Indonesia and Brazil are already using a similar technique . |
| 16 | Coun Michna has been a leading opponent of the scheme , which he says is inappropriate for Clairville Common . |
| 17 | The collection , which he says was put together over the last twenty years , but most of which was acquired from the mid Eighties onwards in a sudden and unexplained burst of prosperity , consists of illuminated manuscripts , metalwork , coins and armour , mainly from the medieval Middle Eastern Islamic world . |
| 18 | Mr Reagan says he can not recollect many of the key events surrounding the scandal , which he says was as much news to him as everyone else . |
| 19 | Branson had prepared a dossier of allegations which he says were ‘ more suitable for an episode of Dick Tracy than for the airline industry ’ . |
| 20 | The consultancy prospered , but some chemical processes which he developed were not successful commercially . |
| 21 | The operations of the mind which he describes are reduced to two fairly simple activities . |
| 22 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
| 23 | Tony Wedd discovered clumps in Wiltshire and Somerset which he thought were the remains of sacred groves , based on the presence of most of the trees described by Robert Graves as forming the Celtic tree alphabet and tree calendar , and which may be a significant guide to the presence of a grove . |
| 24 | As he compared the ‘ full rich life ’ of the old back-street cultures which he thought were being pitted and undermined by the ‘ canned entertainment and packeted provision ’ of the new pulp culture , Hoggart made no effort to disguise his contempt for this barren cultural wasteland — the pop songs , the crooners and the heart-throbs , the hairstyles and clothing , the espresso bars and milk bars which young people frequented , together with the ‘ sex in shiny packets ’ literature and the cacophony of juke-boxes and ‘ nickelodeons ’ . |
| 25 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
| 26 | He asked Mr Jotter who had picked the vowels and why they 'd chosen the letter ‘ u ’ instead of ‘ s ’ which he thought was a nicer shape . |
| 27 | The one drawback at speed seemed to be noise , which he thought was louder than in his own BMW 325i . |
| 28 | But erm police went to visit him again , and says erm you know that 's it , you know , you wo n't , wo n't , you wo n't even be needed to make a statement about where you found it , which he thought was a bit funny . |
| 29 | On his appointment , the wages were increased from £90,000 a year — which he thought was a poor salary — to £220,000 a year . |
| 30 | Newman died in 1890 after a career in which he had been successively the most influential thinker in the Church of England , and then in English Roman Catholicism . |