Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [art] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 2 | He says are you called a Geordie she says no I 'm a Mackem he says what 's a Mackem ? |
| 3 | Des inspects me like I 'm a record he 's thinking of buying . |
| 4 | ‘ The thing is , ’ she said , ‘ that he still thinks I 'm the person he used to know when we all lived in the old hole in the bank . |
| 5 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |
| 6 | When it became clear I was a success he tried to get rid of me permanently . |
| 7 | When I was a child he was selling insurance , then he was offloading imported sheepskin coats in the London street markets , then it was free range eggs . |
| 8 | When I said I was a feminist he became abrupt , as if his time was precious , and told me he could n't help me . |
| 9 | Other cars were parked on the lines — it was difficult to find a space ! — but I was the driver he chose . |
| 10 | ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey . |
| 11 | Look , Preston , if I understand my client correctly , you are the man he permitted to visit with a Miss Fraser ? ’ |
| 12 | You 're the son he never had . ’ |
| 13 | He undressed her slowly and with infinite gentleness , as if she were a peach he could not bear to bruise , and then guided her shaking hands as she undressed him . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 15 | He stood up , face scarlet , looking at her and speaking to her as though she were the whore he had called her . |
| 16 | ‘ I figure Simon said it because he was in love with you and he hoped that by pretending the two of you were a couple he might give fate a nudge and make it happen . ’ |
| 17 | She 's a woman he 's not he 's a man , he 's a man ! |
| 18 | But an English ex-social worker has come forward after seeing her picture in TODAY and claimed she is a youngster he once counselled . |
| 19 | Both she and John Smith have denied suggestions that they are running mates on a ‘ dream ticket ’ , but she is the deputy he would prefer . |
| 20 | Politics and knowledge have worked according to the same Hegelian dialectic , with its ‘ phallo-logocentric Aufhebung ’ — whether it be Marxism 's History , Europe 's colonial annexations and accompanying racism or orientalist scholarship , or , in a typical conflation of patriarchy and colonialism , Freud 's characterization of femininity as the dark unexplored continent ( ’ within his economy , she is the strangeness he likes to appropriate' [ 68 ] ) . |
| 21 | She was a type he found threatening . |
| 22 | She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him . |
| 23 | For , once he knew the truth , he could no longer believe that she was the monster he had branded her , and that might lead him to abandon his marriage , whose only purpose , she was certain now , was to thwart her . |
| 24 | She was the reason he had remained with the Ward company , even after he was made to suffer the humiliation of having his wages paid by a woman . |
| 25 | In their view , we were the hacks he 'd run against and we did n't like being treated that way . ’ |
| 26 | And he felt them and he said they are a bit he said . |
| 27 | They were the pair he had worn last night , which meant … she swallowed convulsively . |
| 28 | They were the words he had been wanting to hear and with an exultant roar , and with both arms at once around her , he pulled her close up to him . |
| 29 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 30 | Harry decided that the embarrassment this caused him was a sign he was getting better . |