Example sentences of "he was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe Maitland used ter go ter the fights , an' apparently 'e was the one who tipped the police off . ’ |
| 2 | The person who meant a lot to him was the Master . |
| 3 | But the assembly which shocked him was the next , at Evanston in the United States in 1954 . |
| 4 | The child who opened the door to him was the one that had been out in the fields with his father . |
| 5 | Immediately below him was the toilet . |
| 6 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |
| 7 | Ahead of him was the Castle Rock . |
| 8 | Dimly , he knew that somewhere inside him was the power to reach it . |
| 9 | His body took it in , took her in , and the desire which reared in him was the strongest he had ever experienced . |
| 10 | Behind him was the vice-president of the organisation , Walter Smyth . |
| 11 | In the sky behind him was the grey shadow of a winged death skull . |
| 12 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 13 | Behind him was the stable area , now used as garages . |
| 14 | Waiting for him was the illuminated Lifeboat tram , on which he made a tour of the Promenade , waving to the crowds and commenting favourably on Blackpool 's modern streamlined trams . |
| 15 | Mr Westley , foreman of the Polishing Room was put in charge , and directly responsible to him was the Canteen Manageress , Miss Dolling . |
| 16 | Another social problem which concerned him was the lack of housing both for the poor and for the tourists . |
| 17 | Near him was the nylon canopy of his ‘ chute , drifting like some giant Portuguese man-o'-war . |
| 18 | ‘ What did Mrs Peterson tell him was the matter with me ? ’ |
| 19 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 20 | He was on a road that led through a swamp , and then coming towards him was the rough figure of a shepherd , the jostling oval shapes of the animals . |
| 21 | The second thing I welcomed from him was the need to get away from outward Western forms in worship and adopt meaningful indigenous forms . |
| 22 | Next , the process of expansion would undermine all those institutions which expressed the highly personalised private enterprise which for him was the essence of capitalism ( such as the change in ownership from individual proprietorship to equity participation in large corporations ) , as well as destroy the protecting strata — the aristocracy , farmers and small business — on which it depended . |
| 23 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 24 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 25 | They darted back to their bunk and behind him was the sound of ripping paper . |
| 26 | She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon . |
| 27 | But what really unnerved him was the landing . |
| 28 | The only thing which bothered him was the old night watchman . |
| 29 | To Joyce , the assault upon him was the particular casus belli that determined his general view . |
| 30 | What attracted men like him was the prospect of pay in return for war service . |