Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] he [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 2 | In the poem Frost at Midnight Coleridge announced that his child Hartley was to be educated according to this theory , and Wordsworth , in writing about his own childhood , makes out a case that he was an example of the same process : The Prelude describes Wordsworth 's formative years from this point of view , and though the facts may be correct , the selection and emphasis of the facts is open to question . |
| 3 | After all , it was a case and he was a policeman . |
| 4 | I du n no , on the one side down a bit so he was n't so noticeable and round the other side there 's ! |
| 5 | He goes on a bit but he 's basically very good-hearted and kind . |
| 6 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 7 | They also say Noorda wo n't name a successor until he 's carried out of the building on a stretcher . |
| 8 | ‘ He was n't exactly a winner but he was honest and decent in every way . |
| 9 | ‘ On Jimmy Tregaskis 's truck — he 's a nurseryman and he 's one of the committee who — ’ |
| 10 | Rival skippers have always agreed that Ian , who plays for Veryan , near Truro , Cornwall , could bat with a runner because he is only able to walk . |
| 11 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 12 | ‘ He wo n't make a decision until he 's seen her , though he 's having the surgical team paged and prepped . |
| 13 | Oddly enough , this must have sickened him because he banned anyone going on a course whilst he was AOC Pathfinder Force . |
| 14 | He used my shoulder for a support while he was firing . |
| 15 | Brian Lawrie is also contesting a finding that he was negligent over the loss of more than £18 million by the local authority in the affair . |
| 16 | William of Malmesbury said King Edward ‘ clapped spurs to his horse , but one foot slipped and he dragged by the other through the wood , his blood leaving a trail until he was dead . ’ |
| 17 | For example , the child who has been taught and has learned to make his babysitter laugh whenever he plays with her can not also hit her over the head with a toy when he is playing with her . |
| 18 | Dossy 's earliest ambitions were to be a writer after he was told at school that he had literary talent . |
| 19 | He was on a pushbike and he was sucked into the slip , into the strip blah , into the slipstream of a car lorry |
| 20 | I realise that there are constraints of time and problems with dissemination , but you would not expect your local GP to prescribe a drug unless he was satisfied that its use was justified by reference to the available research material . |
| 21 | ‘ He lives in a field as he is allergic to everything like straw and paper in the stables , ’ explained owner-trainer John Upson . |
| 22 | Gavin Peacock , their leading scorer , is another highly saleable asset without a contract and he is less keen to commit himself to the club . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's a rector , not a vicar and he is currently incumbent in — ’ I heard paper rustle as if he was turning pages ' — the parish of West Elsworth near Cambridge . |
| 24 | Ingrid was a bore but he was n't sure he might not need her again . |
| 25 | Chiang tried to escape by running up the mountain , and a pavilion has been built to mark the place where he tried to hide in a crevice before he was caught . |
| 26 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 27 | If he has not been appointed to act , he should deliver a certificate that he is a fit and proper person to act as guardian ad litem and has no interest adverse to the defendant . |
| 28 | Brett weighed a mere 1lb 5oz and was as short as a watchstrap when he was born seventeen weeks early . |
| 29 | Maybe even a condom that he 's blowing up ? |
| 30 | Gloucester claimed that the weapons had been intended for use against him , a story that he was later to use in an attempt to have the captured Woodvilles executed , although Mancini comments that no one took it seriously . |