Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been accused of being a Communist he said , simply because he had expressed democratic and nationalist sentiments in his book , ‘ The Negro in the Caribbean ’ . |
| 2 | For reasons which he could not reason — ( perhaps the place had seized his spirit ) — an undeniable cheeky lilt of carelessness , the rapture — long thought lost — of being the man he truly was , threatened to break through the ranks of plot , to disrupt the strategy for survival . |
| 3 | Having always ridden from being a lad he progressed from point to point to riding under rules as an amateur . |
| 4 | He did acquire Savoy and Nice , but he lost control of events in the peninsula , so that the Italian Kingdom which emerged in 1861 was far from being the entity he had originally envisaged . |
| 5 | It was said to be a sentence he 'll carry for the rest of his life . |
| 6 | He is so young and innocent ; although he pretends to be a man he is still only a schoolboy . |
| 7 | Having willed himself to be a snake he is then made one by God , demonstrating his impotence in comparison to the Deity . |
| 8 | You see if they wanted to be a foreman he 'd still in the union . |
| 9 | There was a man a Mr down in the North End Leslie who used to be the apprentice he took |
| 10 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 11 | It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was . |
| 12 | By an incredible coincidence , the day in 1986 when Simon proposed to Hilary also turned out to be the day he got his breakthrough with Radio One . |
| 13 | Religion reflects man 's desire to be the God he imagines . |
| 14 | Mainly to get me out of the house , probably , but when I told my father I was going to be an actor he immediately thought I 'd turned gay . |
| 15 | ‘ When he discovered I wanted to be an actor he felt deeply responsible and thought I must be stopped . ’ |