Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks the only good reason for enforcing statutes whose wisdom he doubts is to protect the legislature 's ability to coordinate social behaviour . |
| 2 | During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years . |
| 3 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 4 | But I am certain that the mistake he made is somehow lodged in your stories . |
| 5 | The eloquent points he made were irrefutable . |
| 6 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 7 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 8 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 9 | Among the points he made was the fact that the cost of immunising a child was 7s.6d. , against thirty times that amount for treating him in hospital . |
| 10 | Almost any statement he made was punctuated with ‘ What do you think ? ’ or ‘ I 'd like your opinion on that . ’ |
| 11 | Every movement he made was slow and deliberate , as if designed to conserve energy . |
| 12 | When he finally did so the impression he made was unforgettable . |
| 13 | The small bow he made was all she needed . |
| 14 | The statement he made was , you say you 've got witnesses but none of them will give evidence against me . |
| 15 | Joseph Rank had his first mill in Sproatley and the house where he lived is still outwardly the same , but the mill foundation was removed about 20 years ago when a modern housing estate was built . |
| 16 | Reaction against him , in the predominantly Roman Catholic island , grew until , on 9 August 1846 , the quinta where he lived was surrounded and attacked by a large crowd of people . |
| 17 | Once upon a time , long ago , there was a rich merchant who thought that the city where he lived was full of bad people , and especially bad children . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He 's a rebel , and the one thing he hates is an old family . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He hates being on the road , ’ said Marco . |
| 20 | He hates being called Matthew , his actual real name is Arthur Matthew , and if you put those initials down A M D , it sounds like a transport company . |
| 21 | Benson 's owner Denise Taylor , of Brockett Close , Newton Aycliffe , said : ‘ He hates being on a lead . |
| 22 | Scarcely a point he plays is n't played to the limit . |
| 23 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 24 | The way he plays is quite unbelievable . |
| 25 | The well known picture of the flautist that appears as the frontispiece of his Principes de la flûte traversière ( Paris , 1707 ) is assumed to be a portrait of Jacques himself ; the instrument he plays is the archetype of the early three-piece flute ( illus.2 ) . |
| 26 | He 's , I , he , the way he plays is virtually unique , is n't he ? |
| 27 | Durie was scheduled to fight an FA charge of misconduct after referee Dermot Gallagher alleged he feigned being head-butted in a confrontation with Andy Pearce in a game against Coventry on August 18 . |
| 28 | He sat down on a sofa which he realised was slightly longer than his cubicle in the lodging house . |
| 29 | A bundle which , as he drew closer , he realised was a person . |
| 30 | He heard her whistling to the radio beyond the half-closed door of what he presumed was her bedroom , and there was another door that could have led to the living-room . |