Example sentences of "[be] [conj] he [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berowne 's only explanation had been that he felt it was time for his life to take a new direction . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 4 | What surprises me is that he said it in public . ’ |
| 5 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 6 | If an owner dwelt in the township where his land was situated the logical inference is that he occupied it himself , although there was nothing to prevent him letting off part or all of it : the Langley Marish man Richard Collis features as ‘ tenaunt to ye Queene , in landes the yerely rente , vs ’ . |
| 7 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 8 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 9 | Oh look he Cherub , that 's cos he did it . |
| 10 | Well that 's cos he moved it was n't it ? |
| 11 | That 's if he means it , of course — which I doubt . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ John has n't told me where he is because he says it 's best that I do n't know , then I ca n't be tempted to tell anyone . ’ |
| 13 | I think it 's because he got it he did n't want people to see him . |
| 14 | In general , whether someone is shifting viewpoints or not , the test of whether he is aware of the look and feel of something , not merely of the facts about it , is whether he takes it into account in choices of ends as well as of means . |
| 15 | ‘ The only way to change Ray MacSharry 's mind , so far as I can see , is before he makes it up . |
| 16 | Provence is as he painted it , we use his images as icons by which to recognise certain things , the cypresses above all , the olives , some configurations of rock and vegetation , the line of the Alpilles , the plain of the Crau , the light itself . |
| 17 | Everything was the same as it had been when he left it to go to the club the night before last . |
| 18 | The only thing was that he said it after Bridgend had beaten Wales a week earlier . |
| 19 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |
| 20 | A clergyman in his late thirties recently said : ‘ No-one has asked me about my praying since I was ordained ! ’ — whether he wanted anyone to ask him was not clear , but the implication was that he needed it ! |
| 21 | Sir Emmanuel asked Uncle Ned what it was and he said it was a young cuckoo . |
| 22 | It was soy , of course , not meat , that formed the filling inside the thin shells of dough , but that was as he wished it . |
| 23 | The door under the stairs was as he recalled it , low and cut on a slant to fit in under the balustrade . |