Example sentences of "be an [noun] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert 's mum , a hospital staff nurse , said : ‘ Robert must have been an emergency because he had a vocabulary of four words at the age of three and speech therapy was no good to him because he could n't hear what they were trying to teach him . |
| 2 | There had been an act but he , Andrus , had not acted . |
| 3 | He would 've been an asset if he 's |
| 4 | Perhaps he was aware that her mother had been an actress and he was taunting her , she thought in panic , her pulse-rate increasing dramatically . |
| 5 | Abe was a prominent candidate for the leadership in October 1987 , but eventually withdrew in favour of Noboru Takeshita , in what was widely believed to have been an agreement that he would succeed Takeshita after his two-year term . |
| 6 | The open door might be an invitation but he did n't want to turn his back to it . |
| 7 | There would be an appropriation once he had decided to keep it . |
| 8 | I 'm worried it might be an ulcer but he refuses to see a doctor . |
| 9 | Next came Peter , who wanted to be an engineer when he grew up . |
| 10 | I am the little boy to the left of the picture of his class half hidden by the boy next to me how funny to think of Walter being an author as he was always in trouble at school and none of the teachers could make him learn does n't it make you think . |
| 11 | He 's an electrician but he is n't any good in the house . ’ |
| 12 | He just has n't got a clue , apparently he said last night he never thought it would be so hard , he had a confession with Liz or something , never thought it would be so hard and he 's really struggled this year , really , really hard work , nothing like being a deputy which to me he 's an idiot if he did n't know that , he 's feeling guilty about the phone bill , but has n't got any money at all for anything |
| 13 | Oh he 's an engineer and he do n't fucking know nothing . |
| 14 | Instead of striking my face and grieving aloud because my hymen was no longer intact , I wondered , ‘ Is it because he 's an Englishman that he does n't feel proud he 's taken my virginity , or is he frightened that now I 'll try to force him to marry me ? ’ |
| 15 | Villagers say the place is an eyesore and he is a disgrace to the church . |
| 16 | It is an outrage that he can be let out so soon ’ . |
| 17 | He intended no offence to Scott , who was the leading living architect , and only wanted to appeal to his good sense and taste , but he could not understand Street 's attack on him , whose attitude that ‘ no one is an architect until he has been in Rome ’ , is the same as our grandfathers . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is an oddity that he seemed to see the criminal justice system as being the only aspect of the environment that influences individual decisions about whether it is worthwhile to commit crime or not . |
| 19 | Indeed , as we shall see later , there is an argument that he benefits from any upward pressure exerted by insider dealing . |
| 20 | Hobbes ‘ s talk of ‘ true ratiocination ’ is an indication that he has some theory of what reason or ratiocination is , some explanation or analysis of it . |
| 21 | Gandhi 's tolerant attitude to religions , which will be dealt with in the following chapter , is an indication that he does not consider any religion to have a monopoly of Truth and that includes Hinduism . |
| 22 | It seems as though he would n't hurt a fly , except there is an inkling that he could become nasty when he starts to throw fruit and vegetables at the cat , who is as suspicious of this ‘ foreigner ’ as the natives . |
| 23 | ‘ He was an economist but he is now just a weak figure in a row which includes doctors , farmers , plumbers and painters — all equal in their misery . ’ |
| 24 | If One of them I found , loved He was an expert as he said at coupling vestibules . |
| 25 | More realistically , she was an iceberg that he would thaw with the fire of his blood , the warmth of his heart . |
| 26 | ‘ He was an artist and he loved bright colours . |
| 27 | It was an hour before he was discovered missing and we spent the rest of the afternoon searching for him in the woods and plains surrounding the house . |
| 28 | It was an hour since he had left a message for Rachel : surely her meeting was over by now . |
| 29 | It was an admission that he was growing old ; vet the brief appearance he made on stage , with his white beard , long robe and crown , was telling enough , and would never be forgotten . |
| 30 | And there was a single decker bus then , right , stopped in the middle of the road and there was an Escort and he 'd gone under the back right up to his windscreen like that the back |