Example sentences of "[be] [conj] he [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could only have been because he read his poetry . |
| 2 | He 's off sick today , from today , how long will it be before he gets his first cheque from us . |
| 3 | The critical stage would be when he lowered his undercarriage . |
| 4 | ‘ He wo n't be when he hears my offer . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A felicitous footnote to that incident is that he got his cake after all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Look at Carlos Lopes — I would n't compare myself with Lopes , but the fact is that he ran his fastest 10K while he was training for a marathon [ Lopes ran the then second fastest ever 10,000m , with 17:17.48 in July 1984 , just one month before winning the Olympic marathon in a record 2:09.21 ] . |
| 9 | Sutton-born Geoff Chilvers had been with the Palace as a Junior in the early days of the 2nd World War and had appeared at Selhurst Park in an interesting schoolboy game that was used as an experiment with numbered players , but his extraordinary claim to footballing fame , which will delight fans with a statistical quirk in their nature , is that he made his debut with a League club as a 16-year-old in a match where his side scored double figures . |
| 10 | What is certain is that he made his way there , ignoring all warning from mortal and immortal alike . |
| 11 | The trouble with the hon. Gentleman is that he believes his own propaganda . |
| 12 | Only information I gathered from him is that he abandoned his yacht because he thought his spare fuel tank was going to blow up . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most fitting tribute to their son is that he gave his life to a mission which may have saved many more . |
| 14 | This is because he broke his watch in the process and handed the busted bits to photographer Pennie Smith . |
| 15 | Few things seem to have been left out , but this is because he based his work squarely on such useful volumes as Michael Darby 's The Islamic Perspective and A. St Clair 's The Image of the Turk in Europe , and a large number of other texts besides . |
| 16 | He might just be one jump ahead of her as he had been when he stole her car space . |
| 17 | The inevitable consequence of his marriage was that he forfeited his fellowship , and the security it had given him . |
| 18 | The difference was that he accepted her attempt at consolation , taking her palm between both of his own hands , holding it gently and meeting her compassionate gaze with the glimmer of a smile . |
| 19 | The result was that he left my flat in a fuming temper , very gruff but very sober , and the broadcast was , I was given to understand , of consummate skill and effectiveness . |
| 20 | Beales 's story was that he met his friend in the pub just after 1 p.m . |
| 21 | My first thought was that he meant his feeling for me . |
| 22 | Welsh bardic tradition was that he carried his offensive into the heartland of Gwynedd . |
| 23 | Smith was a painful blustering bully of a man whose only redeeming feature was that he knew his job . |
| 24 | And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed . |
| 25 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 26 | Either Mr. Woodford had a twinkle in his eye or was just a good salesman , but the upshot was that he supplied my grandmother over many years , in his turn his son carried on and continued serving my mother , right up to 1949 when the Salisbury round had only two customers left . |
| 27 | If Richard Burton was lucky in his background it was because he made his luck . |
| 28 | But that was before he lost his family . |
| 29 | No word of a lie , or and the best part was when he stuck his tongue through the hole and they put soap on it and he |