Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] 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 It had been Campion Price , her father , who , disappointed that his firstborn had not been the male he 'd intended naming after his own father , had insisted she bore the feminine version of that name — Georgina .
3 To which I replied , ‘ This is not the substance of what he said , and if it had been the substance he would have divided the Cabinet ’ ' ( 15 December 1964 ) .
4 It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals .
5 Wife Kath , 48 , said : ‘ He loved his cricket and that would have been the way he wanted to go — playing the game he loved . ’
6 Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage .
7 What had prompted the feeling had been the story he 'd told her about his grandfather and his link with G.W. Fashions .
8 Pamela had been the reason he 'd been put away .
9 This Glasgow Hamlet is the latest in a long line of impersonations , and his soliloquies are the novel he inhabits , or most of it .
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 I mean , it 's , like his car for instance , I mean , that 's always been a dream he never thought he 'd ever be able to afford a new car , erm
14 His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June .
15 If he had n't been a detective he might have been a historian .
16 No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted .
17 I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy , like Noddy .
18 Interviews are a chore he has to do to sell the show .
19 And he felt them and he said they are a bit he said .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ?
22 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 .
23 It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was .
24 Border , who once said that the day Marsh and David Boon are out of the Australian side will be the day he goes as well , got back out on the ground soon enough , but he continued to fuel the fire by staying behind in Adelaide that evening while the rest of the team flew on to Perth to prepare for the fifth and final Test .
25 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 .
26 And Karr would be the hawk he 'd fly against his prey .
27 Mrs Singh agreed that it must be the way he forgot things .
28 I 'm glad you told him it would be the way he said . ’
29 Colin Parry , 37 , a personnel officer , wept as he said his 12-year-old son would never be the way he was but they wanted him to live and they would make a life for him .
30 There was a man a Mr down in the North End Leslie who used to be the apprentice he took
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