Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bigwig had been right when he said the line was fresh . |
| 2 | I am delighted that he sees the benefits of competitive tendering and that he is anxious to ensure that further education colleges should get the best value for money . |
| 3 | Vic 's knuckles are white as he grips the steering wheel . |
| 4 | He was unable to tell Mr Gannon 's family how long the infection had been present but he believed the infection had spread through Mr Gannon 's blood rather than through any internal rupture . |
| 5 | I am sure that he saw the depressing report in The Sunday Telegraph that , with its customary foresight and thoughtfulness , the Treasury had decided to reject the Thameslink project . |
| 6 | They might be different if he had the opportunity to change them after each stage of the count . |
| 7 | ‘ He 'll be lucky if he gets the chance , ’ Defries said . |
| 8 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 9 | He told Aenarion that he would be accursed if he drew the weapon , that such power was too great for any mortal being , and it could only be bought at the price of Aenarion 's immortal soul . |
| 10 | She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes . |
| 11 | Again , John could not be precise but he had the impression that three separate Kamalian squads were being briefed to hit targets in the UK . |
| 12 | It was held that where a hunt entered land after permission to enter had been refused , then the master would be liable if he intended the hounds to enter ; or , if the entry was caused by his failure to exercise proper control over them , when there was a real risk of entry . |
| 13 | ‘ Meredith Putt will be overjoyed when he hears the news . ’ |
| 14 | The seeds are undigested and he ate the skin . ’ |
| 15 | He had found that even in Britain , where officials tended to be dismissive of the idea of a plan , people from private industry were receptive when he explained the Netherlands ' plan at a meeting : ‘ They said , ‘ Yes , we should like such a plan because it reduces our uncertainty . |
| 16 | First , we should understand that the political hacks were peeved when he won the overwhelming support of his colleagues to represent them on Labour 's shadow cabinet and they were really gutted when John Smith gave him the Scottish Office to shadow . |
| 17 | Jesus was not being poetic when he described the Evil One as ‘ the father of lies ’ . |
| 18 | His knuckles were white as he gripped the steering-wheel . |
| 19 | Cardiff could see that the knuckles on his right hand were white where he clenched the chair rest . |
| 20 | His views on the nature of astigmatism were important and he improved the treatment of acute glaucoma . |
| 21 | Officially it is for ‘ consultations ’ but the usual reliable sources say it follows a series of death threats by white bigots who were displeased when he said the South African-controlled Koevoet paramilitary forces were ‘ on a turkey shoot ’ against Swapo guerrillas . |
| 22 | I do know that he became very depressed when the times were bad and he had the mortgage payments to meet . |
| 23 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 24 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 25 | Rizzo maintains no more than that it is possible that he wrote the poem . |
| 26 | Derek Green says he 's come to defend his title and beat the horse … it 's muddy so he hopes the horse will get stuck |
| 27 | In this he was only following in Lanfranc 's footsteps , and it is clear that he expected the king to exercise more authority in ecclesiastical affairs than the more ‘ advanced ’ ecclesiastical theorists of his time thought tolerable . |
| 28 | Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously . |
| 29 | Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously . |
| 30 | Although he has been accused , of course , of social snobbery , I think it 's clear that he observed the life around him closely and critically . |