Example sentences of "[be] [conj] he [verb] they " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He wondered how long it would be before he saw them again , returning from space a rich man . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the facts actually were as he believed them to be , he would be entitled to act as he did . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | And the only way these can make a difference is if he shares them , tests them out , listens to other ideas and looks for ways to put them into practice . |
| 10 | In general , these private archives served to make lineage history : a man kept his own papers , and his father 's and grandfather 's if he inherited them . |
| 11 | They all think that 's like he said they think oh stand up in the corridor , that 's alright , Amy said if you do n't if you have a holiday , you do n't get no money |
| 12 | In Phekoo by contrast the Court of Appeal went directly to the general principle , asking themselves Brett 's question , ‘ What would the position of the accused have been if the facts had been as he believed them to be ? ’ |
| 13 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 14 | If he committed the crime under an insane delusion , his liability depends on the question whether he would have been liable had the facts been as he imagined them to be . |
| 15 | Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed . |
| 16 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 17 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
| 18 | The secret of Jesus ' great kindness to people was that he helped them and yet always gave them space to be themselves . |
| 19 | It was because he saw them as offering more regular and more worthwhile employment for children than could be found in the agricultural districts , with only seasonal and low-paid needs , that Defoe praised the woollen areas . |
| 20 | This was because he used them as guidebooks . |