Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's ma , he 's he 's er squitting It 's complete squit He 's been exposed . |
| 2 | His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport . |
| 3 | His visit lasted for a few hours at most — taking into account the time spent asleep — and the only really detailed description he gave was of the accommodation in which he slept in General Gowon 's home . |
| 4 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 5 | Was he even now locked up in some prison cell to become once again the unkempt figure he had been when she first set eyes on him ? |
| 6 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |
| 7 | As it is , the only problems that clearly disturb him — as opposed to confuse him — are the nightmares and habitual sleepwalking he 's been tormented by since childhood , long before the recreational drug use kicked in . |
| 8 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 9 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 10 | He dressed carefully in the brown suit he had been married in and he bought the ticket with quiet authority . |
| 11 | In our sexual relationship he 's been very good . |
| 12 | By careful arrangement he had been lured away while preparations were made . |
| 13 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
| 14 | Drawings and small-scale sculptures by Quentin can also be seen at Galerie B. Until 9 May , Samia Saouma is showing scenic constructions photographed by Olivier Richon ; the sumptuous atmospheres he creates are ambiguous , pregnant with allusions to the iconography of ages past . |
| 15 | And anyway I walked past him and he went back and he was sh moaning at her so erm two of the old boys he 'd been working with said whatever 's all that about ? |
| 16 | Incidentally , although Fei called his book Peasant Life in China , he made no pretence that the social system he described was typical for the whole country . |
| 17 | A SEX offender escaped jail yesterday after a judge said the eight-year-old girl he abused was ‘ not entirely an angel ’ . |
| 18 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 19 | I raise the delicate question he 's been avoiding . |
| 20 | The real issue he says is skills . |
| 21 | The frightened nervous wretch he 'd been . |
| 22 | In his early days he had been clerk of the race-course , but is more well known as the fiery Salvationist he became after his conversion . |
| 23 | He had been a founding member of the Socialist Youth Movement , and after fighting in the civil war he had been held in detention in ( French ) camps in Algeria , before moving to the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | McHale plans to use the extra £50,000 he has been given for players ' wages to good effect . |
| 25 | Of course , he did not get complete ownership for he did not buy the ring but the limited title he got was perfectly valid and he could enforce that against the jeweller . |
| 26 | There is no reason , and he declines the verbal advice he has been given by his Inspector , so this has now become an ‘ order ’ . |
| 27 | Maxim drove it slowly , en-joying the first real countryside he had been in since the hot weather began . |
| 28 | Not only that , but in the place of real scientists he had been lumbered with a no-hoper and a child . |
| 29 | From early life he had been deeply interested in evangelical Christianity ( he published , anonymously , a religious tract at the age of fourteen ) , and he had an abiding belief in personal social service . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been the tremendous strain he had been under worrying about Laura and trying to keep his job up . |