Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 5 | He wore a pencil moustache above which his nose twitched like a rabbit 's as he sniffed the wine glass he was holding . |
| 6 | Fabbiano was standing off to the side , his arm raised like a parade marshal 's as he directed the models off stage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The important aspect of Johnson 's statement is that he dismisses the whole phenomenon of labouring poets as misapplied patronage . |
| 11 | But he pulled thing was sorry thing was that he pulled the one next to the one that he had a toothache in . |
| 12 | ‘ This was exactly what Martinez had planned , and the rumour was that he worked the whole scheme out with Derek Jefferson . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |