Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [prep] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a real sense league has been the making of him , supplying the hard gloss finish he might never have acquired in union . |
| 2 | It may have been the sight of him bowling ‘ from the asylum end ’ , but the brawny de Kretser took 6 for 14 and masterminded a four-wicket win for the Ceylonese XI . |
| 3 | Strictly a non-professional , his rank of brigadier was simply for purposes of authority in certain quarters and at sixty-five , an age when most men faced retirement , even at Oxford , the war had been the saving of him , that was the blunt truth . |
| 4 | Sheila guessed how great had been the strain upon him as he crouched within sight of the quarry-gulf , looking into its waiting mouth , unable to move an inch . |
| 5 | If he had said , ‘ You need me , ’ then that would have been the end for him . |
| 6 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the other half that 's been the death of him . ’ |
| 8 | You 're a threat to him , so he wants to remove you . |
| 9 | I think if you ha , if you look at Burns in the context of the time in which he lived , he was not an exceptional drinker or an exceptional womanizer , we 're a lot like him |
| 10 | Apart from the time Gould would have spent stalking , shooting , skinning , and preparing these and a host of other birds , there would have been no possibility of him visiting all these different localities and reaching the west bend of the Murray . |
| 11 | But you know , when you said there 's been no damage to him then , physical damage there has n't has there ? |
| 12 | There 'd been no call for him to attend . |
| 13 | ‘ From the moment he caught the bear 's attention there could have been no chance of him escaping . |
| 14 | It is believed he may have left home of his own choice as he did take some of his clothes , but there have been no reports of him trying to leave the country . |
| 15 | There 's been no sign of him since . |
| 16 | ‘ We have been out searching , but there has been no sign of him . |
| 17 | But there had been no spirit in him , the shock of what his father told him had been too great . |
| 18 | I mean , the line-up in the film was terrific , but as far as Yul Brynner was concerned there would have been no film without him . |
| 19 | Something unforeseen and urgent had happened , since Sean had obviously known of it yesterday afternoon , and there had been no opportunity for him to inform her . |
| 20 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 21 | Rumours were rife that Wigan were poised to swoop for the 22-year-old Great Britain star and Saints were lining up Featherstone Rovers ' international Paul Newlove as a replacement but Mr Latham adds : ‘ There have been no enquiries for him he is contracted to us . ’ |
| 22 | It would have been no trouble to him to write the exchange in modern English : ‘ It 's always like that with the things men start off on … |
| 23 | Whenever I went home , my mum and dad had asked me what was being done for John and why there had been no news of him . |
| 24 | She remembered Nails 's dogged determination riding Midnight , swallowing his male arrogance to knuckle under to a girl 's instructions : it had really been a struggle for him . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the offer could hardly have been a surprise to him . |
| 26 | The legacy had been a surprise to him . |
| 27 | His youth had been a misery to him . |
| 28 | And I still feel that you 're to blame for this : if you had been a wife to him he would certainly not have had to seek comfort elsewhere . |
| 29 | Been a bastard to him well |
| 30 | It had been a game to him , to her — to everybody . |