Example sentences of "he [verb] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some time before Wexford could decide whether it was a man or a woman and when he realised it was a woman he called out a brisk , cheerful good night so that she should not be afraid . |
| 2 | ‘ When he realised it was genuine , he was delighted , ’ he said . |
| 3 | It was weeks later before he realised it was one of his team , heading for a dram in Dunbar High Street . |
| 4 | Alas , no sooner had he started than he realised it was no longer what he wanted . |
| 5 | ‘ Once he 'd recharged his batteries I 'm sure he realised it was the wrong decision . |
| 6 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 7 | When he realised it was all a put-up job , he tore a strip off Julie . |
| 8 | Maxim wondered why he was n't more shocked at the instinctive distrust implied by that decision , and sighed as he realised it was because he 'd been nearly six months in the atmosphere of Whitehall . |
| 9 | The easiest way to turn the car was to drive on up to the hardstand by the church , and as he swung about he realised it was in fact the old foundations of small cottages , completely gone with The Bomber . |
| 10 | But sleep did n't come and round about half past three he realised it was n't going to come . |
| 11 | He realised it was not going to brake . |
| 12 | When he opened the bag completely he realised it was a human being . |
| 13 | He checked it was clear , then stepped out . |
| 14 | He s-says it 's the most important th-thing between people . ’ |
| 15 | Does he think it 's funny ? |
| 16 | What does he think it is ? |
| 17 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 18 | Or did he think Or did he think it was pneumonia ? |
| 19 | Did he think it was his jeep ? |
| 20 | I was talking to Marty W. recently about ‘ Good Rockin' , and while he agreed it was both enjoyable and extremely well done , he confided that something which did n't come over was the almost unbelievable youth of everyone involved back then . |
| 21 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 22 | Esmund Falkes , prosecuting , said when detectives showed Yousefi stills from videos filmed inside the Royal Bank of Scotland , Darlington , he agreed it was him , but staff said they knew the man as Garawand . |
| 23 | Secondly , though the net price obtained by the owner of land should have been the same irrespective of whether the body to whom he sold it was private or public , some owners might have been unwilling to sell to the commission . |
| 24 | He goes it 's too fucking dead ! |
| 25 | Only when Charles Hedley drew opposite on his way to work in York had he realised it was a body . |
| 26 | I agree one hundred per cent with Graeme Souness when he insists it was that last 10 minutes in the Lenin Stadium which cost them eventual victory against Spartak Moscow . |
| 27 | Although Edwards has not dismissed the threat of legal action from v , d ) , D customers and admits he is worried , he argued it is a risk which must be run . |
| 28 | It is approaching midnight , but he agrees it is a fine idea . |
| 29 | When I suggest to Hopkins that many abductees could in fact be drawing on repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse and , as a result of bad hypnosis , end up believing mistakenly that they were messed around with by aliens instead , he agrees it 's a possibility , but then argues that some cases of childhood sexual abuse may in fact be alien abductions . |
| 30 | This time the interruption came from a man in the front row of the audience , a tall man who was leaning forward , and George looked at him , feeling less hostility than the woman who had shouted at him earlier had created ; and then he realized it was because he spoke in an educated voice . |