Example sentences of "[be] [conj] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First impressions are that he offered them a recipe of component parts from many different guitars and the result is a sort of nouvelle cuisine which leaves this weary plucker scratching his head . |
| 2 | Berowne 's only explanation had been that he felt it was time for his life to take a new direction . |
| 3 | Defence lawyer Tony Cinnamond said , however , that Wightman 's recollection of the events were hazy due to drink and it could have been that he struck her and her head banged against the wall . |
| 4 | These men do n't need to be very tough to put the fear of Sigmar into your foe — he wo n't know how hard they are until he faces them . |
| 5 | and when he said er , you know he said you know well , er , you like a cigarette the doctor said , yeah , and my dad was so proud of this , you wan na cigarette yeah , you can smoke if you 're , there you are and he said it , it was n't the cigarettes |
| 6 | It could only have been because he read his poetry . |
| 7 | I can not quite recall what he said ; it may be that he said nothing , which , rather than utter anything trite , he sometimes preferred to do . |
| 8 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 9 | Ms Armstrong considers Mr Fallon to be sexist : the reason appears to be that he called her a woman . |
| 10 | The outcome will be that he claims he can book you a flight only to the international airport on Sal Island . |
| 11 | as if he 'd known she 'd spent all night wondering about the feel of his lips on hers , about how it would be if he kissed her . |
| 12 | Well I would n't be if he bought me flowers now and again . |
| 13 | ’ — but when he heard what the fees would be if he stayed he decided that he was hanged if he was going to spend all that money on being upset . |
| 14 | He 's off sick today , from today , how long will it be before he gets his first cheque from us . |
| 15 | He wondered how long it would be before he saw them again , returning from space a rich man . |
| 16 | There was nothing analytical in the experience , only a sense of wonder that things should be as he saw them and , in particular , that he should be involved . |
| 17 | The critical stage would be when he lowered his undercarriage . |
| 18 | He would n't be when he knew what he 'd come about . |
| 19 | ‘ He wo n't be when he hears my offer . ’ |
| 20 | As for regret , she was feeling that already , but how much sharper it would be when he decided he did n't want her any more , as he certainly would do sooner or later . |
| 21 | If the facts actually were as he believed them to be , he would be entitled to act as he did . |
| 22 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 23 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 24 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 25 | I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’ |
| 26 | What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat . |
| 27 | A felicitous footnote to that incident is that he got his cake after all . |
| 28 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 29 | The consequence ( usually ) is that he achieves his goal ; he coerces you both into giving way a very rewarding state of affairs seen from his point of view , a very unrewarding ( and sometimes humiliating ) state of affairs seen from your perspective . |
| 30 | The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . ) |