Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a particular kind of French personality who always pronounce the word francais as if it were a football he is heading towards less privileged mortals . |
| 2 | It 's a route he has just retraced for the character of Fergus , the IRA man who attempts to re-make his life in The Crying Game ] , an experience Jordan understands well . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a wonder he did n't go mad . |
| 4 | But it 's a wonder he does n't . |
| 5 | The way he was brought up I suppose , but it 's a wonder it it 's a wonder he 's got any business at all ! |
| 6 | Do you know , it 's a wonder he ai n't fat as a pig , him . |
| 7 | I thought cor blimey it 's a wonder he can walk look at that you would n't believe that today would you nineteen ninety two oh no wonder they all come over here , is so really , ca n't blame them if that 's the sort of quality of life they 've got |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a pity he is not a bit more French . ’ |
| 9 | I SYMPATHISE with Kevin Eason after his car accident but it 's a pity he did n't mention the fire brigade whose members help save thousands of lives on our roads . |
| 10 | In fact , it 's a pity he is n't in the game now . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a pity he ca n't kill himself with drink , ’ muttered Heathcliff . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a pity he is n't a lecher , ’ said the Archdeacon with regret . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a pity he does n't have it repaired instead , ’ Sabine said . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a pity he did n't get a surprise and find himself dead . |
| 15 | It 's a pity he could n't stick to something like that cos I mean ex-policemen can get jobs like that no trouble ca n't they ? |
| 16 | It 's a pity he do n't go and do that it 's a pity he ca n't drive and go and do that |
| 17 | It 's a pity he do n't go and do that it 's a pity he ca n't drive and go and do that |
| 18 | It 's a quality he 'll need to cultivate in the days ahead . ’ |
| 19 | And it 's a quality he put to good use when he performed a parachute jump to raise money for a girl who suffers from a rare heart condition . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a shame he did n't stick to chess instead of cards , ’ the old man finished . |
| 21 | It 's a shame he did n't say that before he asked me to marry him . ’ |
| 22 | It 's a shame he 's not married , he 'd be a wonderful father . ’ |
| 23 | It 's a shame he ca n't play against his old county , but I 'm looking forward to it because I had a happy season with them last year . |
| 24 | They 're invited in to talk about a particular thing that 's coming in , about noise or about rats in the basement or about how to , and the interviewer has a very vague idea it 's a topic he 's heard it , he 's thought about it , he thinks it 's a local thing , and he 's actually trying to get something out of it in a sense . |
| 25 | He 's throwing in the towel and it 's a towel he 's never even held anyway , ’ said Mrs Mainwaring . |
| 26 | It 's a miracle he 's walking about , is n't it ? |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a miracle he was n't killed either by the electric cable , the fall or an oncoming train , ’ said police . |
| 28 | His brother Pete said : ‘ It 's a miracle he was n't killed . ’ |
| 29 | If it 's a learner he 's breaking the law . |
| 30 | What Coetzee 's work suggests , and it is a pity he does not pursue this point fully , is that in Britain before 1914 the potential fragmentation of the political right was contained . |