Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 2 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 3 | In the Surrey side he inherited were a few reputedly awkward personalities . |
| 4 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 5 | On the question of whether as adviser he had been privy to confidential information , he said : ‘ Any ( management ) buyout is party to information other buyers wo n't have . ’ |
| 6 | By comparison with Alexander I and most eighteenth-century tsars he had been remarkably inactive beyond his frontiers . |
| 7 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 8 | The work of Roland Barthes can be read in a similar way although both the style of his approach and the methods he uses are different . |
| 9 | The impressive manor he occupies is n't actually his : it belongs to a minor local aristocrat who 's let it to him , presumably under a long lease . |
| 10 | Berger stood stripped to the waist in front of the wash-basin in the small bedroom he had been allocated and examined his face in the mirror . |
| 11 | The ‘ singular universal ’ , with its organicist and essentialist overtones whereby the part incarnates the whole , is thus the product of Sartre 's hesitation between the singular , which remains privileged as the existential basis of history , and the universal which as a Marxist he feels is required for its intelligibility and validation . |
| 12 | The faith of the psychiatrist in whatever remedies he uses is an important contribution to , and perhaps sometimes the main reason for its effectiveness or its reputation , but this drug , later named Tofranil or imipramine , was found to be effective in many other clinics and came to be used on a wide scale . |
| 13 | The steps he took are shown in Fig. 7.24 . |
| 14 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 15 | Even with Palottino he had been discreet , not mentioning what the kidnapper had said to him . |
| 16 | All were second-hand , but they were far better than the stinking rags he had been wearing . |
| 17 | According to the Sun the man walked free after telling guards he had been attacked in the incident on Tuesday . |
| 18 | All he knew was that compared with the trollop he had been with the day before , she was like a princess , a very untouchable snow princess seven years older than he , who had recently lost her husband . |
| 19 | Like many other boys with India in his blood he had been forced into rootlessness by education . |
| 20 | Tubby was sitting up straight , shoulders back , head raised , looking for the first time in his visit like the confident soldier he had been . |
| 21 | As a soldier he had been taught to err on the side of caution . |
| 22 | And Gooch would never get out of his mind that the car he drove was an instrument of death . |
| 23 | ’ Shaun Gooch will never , for the rest of his life , get out of his mind that the car he drove was an instrument of death ’ . |
| 24 | The last three worked passably ; the March car he had was a fiasco . |
| 25 | For centuries he has been looked upon as a sex maniac whose only interest in kittens is to kill them if he gets half a chance . |
| 26 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 27 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 28 | The only other thing that you heard Sergeant say that some how at the briefing he 'd been given information that was likely to be in the master bedroom . |
| 29 | One result he claimed was a proof that the circle could be squared . |
| 30 | As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence . |