Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | By comparison with Alexander I and most eighteenth-century tsars he had been remarkably inactive beyond his frontiers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The steps he took are shown in Fig. 7.24 . |
| 6 | All were second-hand , but they were far better than the stinking rags he had been wearing . |
| 7 | According to the Sun the man walked free after telling guards he had been attacked in the incident on Tuesday . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In mitigation Lawrence Hazell said the defendant had acted stupidly in accepting invitations to drive cars he knew were stolen . |
| 10 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |
| 11 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |
| 12 | I I I I think it 's a bit awkward , because some of the words he uses are , there a bit strange , and they 're not in the dictionary any more , and er |
| 13 | Let me come into the book of Hebrews and those words he uses are actually , to be underlined and emphasized . |
| 14 | Shutting his eyes , he pressed his head back against the seat , recalling the words he had been told . |
| 15 | They were the words he had been wanting to hear and with an exultant roar , and with both arms at once around her , he pulled her close up to him . |
| 16 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 17 | Privately the words he used were ‘ I 'll be jiggered . |
| 18 | Here was a man easily ridiculed because of the words he has been forced to eat . |
| 19 | ‘ In other words he has been taken in by all this ‘ financial advice ’ and guidance . |
| 20 | Among the subjects he detailed were the attempts of U.S. insurance companies and the { Mediaid } system to pass much of the burden of care onto families ; the great strain placed on family and personal relationships ; hardships in adjusting to residential situations ; and medical difficulties with such things as bladder and bowel management , skin diseases , constant pain , spastic muscle movement , regulating body temperature and resistance to respiratory complications . |
| 21 | Brightness tempted him , and yet many bright pictures he saw were insipid , cold lies that left him unsatisfied . |
| 22 | In his own wallpaper designs he had been determined to avoid anything that commanded attention the moment a person entered a room . |
| 23 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 24 | Additionally , the buyer can claim damages which would be equivalent to the difference in cost of buying another similar computer elsewhere and any other expenses and losses he has been put to as a direct consequence of the breach , with the proviso that he mitigates his losses , that is , he keeps them to a minimum . |
| 25 | For some months he had been making his preparations by placing his men in key positions , so that if and when the moment came , the coup would be swift and , he hoped , bloodless . |
| 26 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 27 | For several months he had been finding rings of stones , surrounding a large boulder which was often topped with melted wax . |
| 28 | For months he had been haunted by his memories of the battle of Toulouse ; reliving the bowel-loosening terror he had felt at that last conflict of the last war . |
| 29 | At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage . |
| 30 | For some while he had suffered from phlebitis and several times in the previous months he had been unable to speak at meetings . |