Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Laverty [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 432 ( CA ) the reason why the victim bought a stolen car was because he thought the accused was authorised to sell it , not in reliance on the fact that it did not have its original number-plates . |
| 2 | But his main qualification for cleaning up Argentina 's economic mess is that he did the same job ( rather badly ) in a short-lived government a quarter of a century ago . |
| 3 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 4 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 5 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 6 | But it did n't prevent her struggling , and he noticed how tiny her wrists were as he tightened the cord until it bit deep into her thin flesh . |
| 7 | He wore a pencil moustache above which his nose twitched like a rabbit 's as he sniffed the wine glass he was holding . |
| 8 | Bourdieu 's second criticism of Lévi-Strauss is that he misses the very specific nature of the exercise of power in traditional societies . |
| 9 | The unspoken allegation against Mr Delors is that he sabotaged the talks because of his support for French farmers who oppose any reduction in EC agriculture subsidies . |
| 10 | Fabbiano was standing off to the side , his arm raised like a parade marshal 's as he directed the models off stage . |
| 11 | Matthew Arnold 's great achievement was that he convinced the younger generation among his readers of the necessity for providing throughout England an abundant supply of public secondary schools for boys and girls , schools which would be intellectually competent , attested by public inspection , and aided both by local authorities and the state . |
| 12 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |
| 13 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
| 14 | The unusual thing neighbours noticed about the quiet civil servant who occupied the attic flat was that he kept the window open in all weathers — to dissipate the smell from the corpses of three of the young men he murdered . |
| 15 | The difference with Bill was that he had the power to be able to make his fantasy come true and that he lacked the self control , and the basic decency to say ‘ no ’ to himself and to Mandy . |
| 16 | The important aspect of Johnson 's statement is that he dismisses the whole phenomenon of labouring poets as misapplied patronage . |
| 17 | But he pulled thing was sorry thing was that he pulled the one next to the one that he had a toothache in . |
| 18 | ‘ This was exactly what Martinez had planned , and the rumour was that he worked the whole scheme out with Derek Jefferson . |
| 19 | One possibility is that he took the view in this case that the trust inhered in specific property , and that it was payable by the person who had that property , so far as the other conditions for a valid trust were also met . |
| 20 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |