Example sentences of "be the [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 | 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 | Love , warmth , the earth as mother of us all and the inevitable return to the womb are the themes he reiterates , albeit through the familiar , bloated imagery of fat parasites , suicide , blood and pain . |
| 11 | Love , warmth , the earth as mother of us all and the inevitable return to the womb are the themes he reiterates , albeit through the familiar , bloated imagery of fat parasites , suicide , blood and pain . |
| 12 | Many are the times he has held up busy working schedules because he has become fascinated by someone he has encountered in a crowd . |
| 13 | And the erm ni the , the , the capsules and the er Nitrous Albide I expect are the ones he 's going to change though the problem is exactly what to . |
| 14 | It 's er Hitachis are the ones he did n't er rate at all . |
| 15 | There are the actions he or she contributes to the total social process , and there are the accounts in which action is interpreted , criticized and justified . |
| 16 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 17 | So too , are the companies he left behind . |
| 18 | ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey . |
| 19 | Look , Preston , if I understand my client correctly , you are the man he permitted to visit with a Miss Fraser ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We have every reason to believe he 's a member of the IRB Supreme Council , therefore it 's vital we know who are the people he contacts . |
| 21 | You 're the son he never had . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And Karr would be the hawk he 'd fly against his prey . |
| 29 | Surely these could not be the ones he had planted ? |
| 30 | Mrs Singh agreed that it must be the way he forgot things . |