Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Could he 've been ? |
| 32 | All the other experience that he devoured was put to the one obsessing activity . |
| 33 | The only sounds he registered were the faint rumblings of hangar doors and the occasional roar of powerful engines as his fellow-pilots tested their jets . |
| 34 | The assemblage of lands which he ruled is traditionally called the Angevin Empire and the name is important . |
| 35 | The proofs which he produced were so convincing that to keep him quiet he was first made Bishop of Exeter and then , when he complained that the diocese 's revenues were inadequate for his family , Bishop of Worcester . |
| 36 | What he produced was a gen-u-ine statement of skin ; a document to be placed alongside other such documents , delivered with the same How's-your-father flourish as a graffiti slogan on a council estate wall or a boot planted through an Asian 's shop window or a gallon of petrol poured through the letterbox of a Bengali family 's home . |
| 37 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 38 | It seems to me that what we 're talking about here is Harrogate 's land allocation being , not necessarily an I five , but sixty hectares which he agreed was adequate for I five yesterday , plus I suspect another fifty which would be a strategic site . |
| 39 | And he goes , he goes are you |
| 40 | Because where he goes is a smaller school where they go and erm I think something like that is nice for them to actually |
| 41 | Anyway so he goes is James there and I went yeah and he goes mm , so I went I think so , I 'd better go and get him had n't I |
| 42 | She takes her clothes off , he goes am I ? |
| 43 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 44 | McKenzie was urged to play a season with the Randwick Colts ( under-20 ) and the first player he met was a burly hooker called Kearns , who like Farr-Jones , was unable to win a first XV team berth at prestigious Newington College . |
| 45 | But the only person he met was Balor , on his daily forage to the wine store during the Gruagach 's afternoon snooze , to replenish his secret stock of ale and mead , which had been sadly depleted with all these unexpected visitors to Tara . |
| 46 | It is so grave , because , on any view , the putting to death of a human being by the society to which he belongs is an appalling act , calculated in itself rather to familiarise that society with the taking of life than to heighten the sense of life being held sacred . |
| 47 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
| 48 | But at that point hope is cruelly dashed , for the food he supplies is that terrible mound of quails . |
| 49 | Now he is a minister of a church in Houston , where among the prayers he offers is one to be allowed to fight Tyson for the world title . |
| 50 | Now he is a minister of a church in Houston , where among the prayers he offers is one to be allowed to fight Tyson for the world title . |
| 51 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 52 | As we have seen , a waiter at a hotel implies that the wine he offers is that of the hotel and not his own : Doukas , above , and in Silverman there was an implied representation that a quote was fair in the circumstances of mutual trust . |
| 53 | The Likud Prime Minister , Mr Yitzhak Shamir , proposed holding the elections last May , but he is resolutely opposed to any role for Mr Yasser Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation , which he insists is still committed to terrorism . |
| 54 | The 39-year-old , on what he insists is his last tour , re-asserted his intention to return home at the end of the India leg on 6 March — rather than go , after all , to Sri Lanka for the final fortnight in an effort to help restore confidence and belief to his side . |
| 55 | The most famous teaming up of the two brothers was in 1973 , with the chart single Frankenstein , a testimony to Johnny 's ability to adapt to a variety of different styles , an ability , in fact , which he insists was born out of necessity … |
| 56 | Meanings he argued are created by differences . |
| 57 | Progress he argued was held back or deformed by the contradictions between the social relations of production and the forces of production . |
| 58 | The land he rode was marshy , forcing him to weave an intricate course past the more treacherous patches . |
| 59 | To shut his eyes as he rode was another . |
| 60 | His decision , since the madness of Doc Askins , to live without the emotions , was one that he realized was impossible . |