Example sentences of "[be] [that] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 6 | Ms Armstrong considers Mr Fallon to be sexist : the reason appears to be that he called her a woman . |
| 7 | The outcome will be that he claims he can book you a flight only to the international airport on Sal Island . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A felicitous footnote to that incident is that he got his cake after all . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ) |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | All I hope is that he gets whoever attacked Anna- and gets him quickly . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What is certain is that he made his way there , ignoring all warning from mortal and immortal alike . |
| 20 | All I know is that he thought you would be pleasantly surprised . ’ |
| 21 | What surprises me is that he said it in public . ’ |
| 22 | 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' . |
| 23 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 26 | The trouble with the hon. Gentleman is that he believes his own propaganda . |
| 27 | Only information I gathered from him is that he abandoned his yacht because he thought his spare fuel tank was going to blow up . |
| 28 | One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak . |
| 29 | the important is that he knows what you 're on and why you 're on it , and you can tell him that . |
| 30 | Another thing about Steven Hughes Conference is that he knows what he 's talking about , on on shop floor iss issues like health and safety and those colleagues who were present at the launch of the G M B's National Health and Safety Campaign will confirm that especially the way he described the Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive . |