Example sentences of "be an [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ When he discovered I wanted to be an actor he felt deeply responsible and thought I must be stopped . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 5 | Upon our arrival at the foot of the stairs the dog made it plain that stairs were an innovation he 'd not encountered before , by staging the first of many sit-down strikes . |
| 6 | That 's an issue he 'd surely hold close between the two of them as long as he thought no absolute harm had come of it . |
| 7 | It 's an experience he is glad to put behind him . |
| 8 | It took him 20 minutes to make it down safety and it 's an experience he 's not keen to repeat . |
| 9 | And although the fighting was over by then it 's an experience he will never forget . |
| 10 | For now , he 's happy to relax in Herefordshire , but soon the phone will ring and he 'll be off again to another of the worlds hot spots helping the casualties of war , it 's an invitation he 'd find hard to refuse . |
| 11 | It 's an augument he still stands by today . |
| 12 | The patient may have enjoyed gardening before his stroke or head injury , and it is an activity he can return to even with quite a degree of disability . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is an honour he has found hard to bear , for he has been acting very strangely even by his own standards . |
| 14 | Somehow this is an awareness he 's built into me or I would n't be able to spot it where nobody else can . |
| 15 | If this is an enemy he will almost certainly be slain . |
| 16 | An unoccupied person , finding a drum , may be seized with a desire to beat it ; but unless he is an imbecile he will be unable to continue beating it , and thereby satisfying a need ( rather than a ‘ desire ’ ) , without finding a reason for so doing . |
| 17 | Although Holden is an atheist he takes an interest in religion , for example he mentions his opinions about Christ and the disciples , and recounts his experience with two nuns . |
| 18 | By the time the occupier realises that there is an action he is statute barred . |
| 19 | It was an occasion he never forgot : |
| 20 | It was an operation he had never done before , and it was schrecklich difficult . |
| 21 | He knew that it was an invitation he would accept . |
| 22 | And , in the heightened mood brought on by the success of his performance , it was an invitation he felt inclined to take up . |
| 23 | Helping to save life was an idea he felt he had grown up with . |
| 24 | It was an issue he preferred to keep quiet during his lifetime because he feared that it might have an adverse effect on his family . |
| 25 | He wondered how the little man was coping , remembered the heads and concluded it was an acquaintance he would not wish to renew . |
| 26 | It was an experience he 's never forgotten , helping him to appreciate the reality of the world outside football and the good fortune of those who earn a living from the game . |
| 27 | This was an original he was very proud of this and he kept telling us about this . |
| 28 | " This is T. S. Eliot here , " he would say on the telephone ; it was an instrument he detested and when using it his voice had " a curiously strangled sound " . |
| 29 | As he said , it was an episode he would never forget . |
| 30 | The idea of a sequel seemed odd , ‘ Harvest ’ was an LP he 'd badmouthed over the years , and it was hardly his style to go into the Mike Oldfield school of repackaging old product . |