Example sentences of "that it be he " in BNC.

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1 But look at someone like Jeff Beck ; he plays a Strat through a fuzzbox into a Marshall 50 head , and you ca n't mistake the fact that it 's him .
2 Chelsea are due to announce their new manager tomorrow , and Hoddle still has n't denied reports that it 's him .
3 When will the Minister admit that it is him and his Government who are responsible for all the problems , including the appalling homelessness that is subsequently caused ?
4 One former employee at Church House recalls occasions when he has intervened in staffing decisions more properly the sphere of General Synod on the basis that it is he who writes the cheques .
5 There is a legend that says they will return when the Lost Prince of Tara appears , and that it is he alone whom they will serve .
6 You 're going to try to tell me that it was him , not you ?
7 That it was him did all them things ? — I knew you were daft , Gazzer .
8 He then realised that he had already seen his son some distance from the door and that his conviction that it was him had been totally irrational .
9 Eric 's name was not given but it was not difficult to guess that it was him .
10 I know now that it was him . ’
11 No doubt that it was him .
12 She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for .
13 Even when , halfway through the morning he broke out with , ‘ Well , there 's no need for you to keep on and on about the table , ’ I did not point out that I had said nothing , that it was he who was ‘ going on and on about it ’ inside himself .
14 There was , however , a senior general , Catroux , representing the Free French in Egypt at the time , and it is more probable that it was he who interviewed Stirling .
15 The trust is invalid on several counts : no property has been bequeathed to the curator so the principle of benefit is infringed ; if the curator had been validly appointed , which he has not , then he would be able to exercise some control over the foster-child 's use of the land ; but even then , since he would not be owner , it would be a problem that it was he who was charged with the trust for distributing shares in the income from the land .
16 ‘ Well if it eats half as well as a salmon , I shall be 'appy , ’ grinned Lofty , subtly reminding the others that it was he who had found the fish .
17 Another suggests that Dom Pérignon spent several years in the Benedictine monastery at Alcántara in Spain and that it was he , not the monks of Santiago de Compostela , who brought the cork to Hautvillers .
18 What he characteristically does not say is that it was he who kept the Pythons together .
19 What had happened , because his holidays coincided with mine , was that my father had become my mother as well as my father , in the sense that it was he and not she who was always at home .
20 Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’
21 Walsh pointed out to Sutton that it was he , and not Pilger , who had the final say about what went in the paper .
22 It was just his bad luck that the village of Pontino lay just within that border and that it was he , and not some Sienese colleague who had been awakened at dawn .
23 When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking .
24 She 'd fixed the place where he 'd been , stooped to pick up her baggage , and gone after him , not doubting that it was he .
25 To assert that the knave of hearts was the person who stole the tarts is not to assert that one believes that it was he who stole them .
26 Freed also said that it was he rather than Duna , who had taken a 90% stake in Hungary 's largest circulation English-language newspaper , Budapest Week .
27 The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead .
28 They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general .
29 He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him .
30 Rumour had it that it was he who brought it to the attention of Chamberlain , who became President of the Board of Trade at the same time as Plimsoll left the House , that numbers of lives lost at sea , after falling as a result of the Load Line Act , were now again on the increase .
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