Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing he did want was money , enough of it , and pretty soon : ‘ Without money you miss most of the pleasures and lose most of the time , and do n't let's pretend otherwise . ’ |
| 2 | Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value . |
| 3 | But what he did do was to embroider , I fantasise . |
| 4 | Stansill was not one of the extroverts of the underground , but what he did bring was method , in an environment with hardly any , and a philosophical view about the alternative which the underground could offer . |
| 5 | What he did learn was the coffee machine . |
| 6 | The fish and chips he did buy were simply scrumptious . |
| 7 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 8 | Well what he did say was do n't you know do n't go over the top in criticizing that because |
| 9 | He also lived at Pinner and erm then the work dried up and he first of all he did work was a postman at Christmas time , you know just as a thing and then he started you know then he became full time you know . |
| 10 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |
| 11 | What little money he did have was spent on a record selected with extreme care which became , to his way of thinking , a possession close to his heart . |
| 12 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 13 | The man she saw on the other side was in his late thirties , his hair receding slightly , but what hair he did have was thick and lustrous and reached the collar of his shirt . |
| 14 | Thus we must not , if we think that some other procedure than that adopted by the Secretary of State would be better or fairer , therefore conclude that the procedure he did adopt is necessarily unfair . |
| 15 | What he did wish was to emasculate his opponents , and then to pretend they were coming together as equals . |
| 16 | What he did know was that Joe liked to be surrounded by young men . |
| 17 | There are not many dishes he creates so , but those he does create are truly magnificent . |
| 18 | What he does recall is the years he spent as a violent drunk , his frequent periods in Saughton prison and life in hostels for the single homeless . |
| 19 | What he does see is a crippled lama living in extreme simplicity and frugality in a mountain hermitage , whose being is irradiated with a joy which has an even keener edge because his infirmities offer him no possibility of escape . |
| 20 | But what he does get is the satisfaction of working alongside regular officers in the knowledge that his contribution is a genuine benefit to the work being done in Darlington . |
| 21 | What he does have is all packed away inside his leotard — destined to be cult items . |
| 22 | And the stars he does have are not going to get any better . |
| 23 | What he does know is that at least some of the whales seem to have started making Puget Sound their regular summer feeding ground . |