Example sentences of "he [verb] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The friendship with Isabella Stewart Gardner lasted a lifetime and the artist also acted as her adviser on purchasing art : among the works he recommended was Gentile Bellini 's ‘ Portrait of a Turkish scribe or painter ’ .
2 Apprentice boy , my mate he er our friend dead and gone , he 's a good turner that runs er er reels , yet erm that 's all he got was five shillings a week after er no seven year 's apprenticeship .
3 and then , that week , he sell 's ten pence a can , then the following week he still bought it ten pence , following week it goes up to eighteen pence , but he 's still selling what , so I do n't think it , I think .
4 One of the first things he found was that golf is not something that can be watched that closely .
5 He regarded being chief secretary , with its need to cut departmental spending throughout Government , as having been the toughest of the jobs ‘ in terms of sheer workload ’ .
6 He also on July 24 made remarks criticizing members of the UN Security Council for giving what he maintained was undue priority to the situation in Yugoslavia , which he described as a " war of the rich " .
7 The highest priced work is the leaf from the Arenberg Psalter with illuminations on both sides , for which he paid about $520,000 in 1990 , admitting that he has been one factor in the rise in prices in single sheet miniatures at auction : ‘ Prices have climbed enormously because museum directors realise more and more that the history of painting before 1450 , and even into the sixteenth-century is to a very large extent found in illuminated manuscripts ’ .
8 He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season .
9 He has been chief executive of the rival Leeds Permanent society , which ranks fifth in size , since 1987 .
10 He has been vice president , sales at Cygnet Systems Inc , the optical jukebox house .
11 For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July .
12 He has been managing director of LASMO North Sea for the last four years and has been responsible for the group 's activities in the UK and Netherlands .
13 He has been European golf 's generalissimo and it is appropriate that the decade opened to the sound of a Ballesteros devastation .
14 Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ?
15 JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 .
16 JIM WISE , NDO for Credit Accumulation and Transfer , has been seconded from Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh where he has been Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics since 1981 .
17 Latterly he has been Fast Reactor Director .
18 He has been national champion at under-10 , 14 , 16 and 19 level , and World Young Master .
19 Mark Clayton 's cooking has progressed in the year he has been head chef at Eastwell Manor , near Ashford , Kent .
20 He has been discouraging enquiry and I think we live with that legacy which produces apathy in our general population about health care issues .
21 Oh I 've done about four , but we were having trouble with he want 's some books he likes books , but wo n't give us a clue and
22 What he needs is practical help , not spiritual help .
23 All he needs is 13 hours of calm weather .
24 But what 's more serious is that one of the phrases that he used was more people are going to suffer in cover .
25 He reckons NeXTStep can do development five to ten times faster than other technologies such as SunSoft Inc 's Solaris or Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4.2 which he says are weak development solutions .
26 RETIRED teacher George Calvert went to court yesterday to try to stop a noise he says is disturbing God 's peace — the local church bells .
27 The care and attention he received was first class throughout his stay and although he missed out on a family Christmas at home , the staff more than made up for it and he was showered with extra presents which helped to speed his recovery .
28 He 'd been sure Joe was dead when they left him .
29 I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second .
30 Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable .
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