Example sentences of "be [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone has learned how to operate a word-processor or complete an accurate and intelligible technical drawing then it may be that these are skills he can build upon and will not have to relearn . |
| 2 | ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’ |
| 3 | His obsessions are wounds he deliberately keeps open . |
| 4 | he 'll eat raw carrot and things like that but otherwise the only vegetables he 'll eat are potatoes he eats |
| 5 | On good soil he could probably plough two or three acres in a day , but on the more difficult land that had until recently been forest he would be lucky to manage half of this . |
| 6 | The beast by candle-light ; the trip to bed where all the things you would n't do , have n't done , are things he 'll make you do , and things you 'll want ; and then the beast 's departure , out on his own , still smelling your smell but looking for fresh tracks . |
| 7 | But there are things he does not know , and the knowledge will somewhat better a case which even so is still black enough . |
| 8 | ‘ But there are things he lacks . |
| 9 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 10 | Newsweek , available on news stands on Monday , excerpted parts of hostage Terry Anderson 's book ‘ Den of Lions : Memoirs of Seven Years ’ in which he writes : Waite ‘ can not seem to understand that there are things he does that drive the rest of us crazy . ’ |
| 11 | Hess has protected them , although in theory they are people he should not even know . |
| 12 | There would be signs he 'd have spotted . |
| 13 | I 'm Billy he 's Bobby , no I 'm Bobby he 's Billy . |
| 14 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 15 | he said I come to sup be supervisor he said , I do n't know , I do n't wish to learn all that ! |
| 16 | I 'm Billy he 's Bobby , no I 'm Bobby he 's Billy . |
| 17 | I 'm doubtfull he 's but unfitt for anything requires attendance ’ . |
| 18 | Had Trent been Miguelito he would have lain in wait in the jungle by the catamaran . |
| 19 | ‘ Paysage d'Harfleur ’ , dated 1900 , reveals his debt to the Impressionists , and there are works he painted on first arriving in Paris , after ten years spent at Le Havre with Dufy and Friesz . |
| 20 | Mia 's lawyer said : ‘ If there had been threats he 'd call the cops . ’ |
| 21 | But it had been Sandra he 'd called darling . |
| 22 | Even while he admired Nona and loved her , there were times he wanted to say : ‘ Look , Nona , there is this thing you have to take into account between us . ’ |
| 23 | They were voices he knew . |
| 24 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly afraid to say the words aloud in case they were words he would n't want to hear . |
| 25 | Two others were journalists he knew already . |
| 26 | Even religion and politics were subjects he covered in his preamble in relation to local inhabitants such as George Fox . |
| 27 | Over half of the Dwarf force had been slain and although Skarsnik had lost many good warriors they were losses he could easily afford . |
| 28 | If he were Intelligence he certainly would n't tell me . |
| 29 | One man , Hamad Hasan al-Harash , had a notebook in which he wrote down important events as he came across them : some were reports of what very old men had told him thirty or forty years ago ; others were things he had read ; others still were things which had happened to him . |
| 30 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |