Example sentences of "[vb base] he [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of touching people in the crowd or letting people in the crowd touch him was something that had not occurred to him , but to be beautiful and that remote — you 've got to get a crowd to touch him because that was what really got them wild . |
| 2 | As he drank from the two glasses so he was able to strut wider and leap higher , until with the glasses empty he was spinning and soft-shoe shuffling , and the dancers had stopped dancing and were finger-clicking and hand-clapping and the atmosphere built like a house of cards , thin and precarious but high and beautiful . |
| 3 | Pity he was born in England . |
| 4 | But what better way of fooling the enemy when your Prime Minister was going to one place than by having a double suggest he was somewhere else altogether ? |
| 5 | It is not clear whether the condition Smart is describing was purely physical , or of a psychotic nature , but two verses suggest he was mentally as well as physically afflicted in 1756 : |
| 6 | You suggest he was secretly testing it for work on the Antarctic land mass , flying it south over the pack ice . |
| 7 | Local reports suggest he was carrying 20 cases of cigarettes from Gibraltar to Spanish territory where they can fetch 3 times the price . |
| 8 | I expect he was like all the rest indoors , could n't find his way out of a paper bag . |
| 9 | How he knew from which coach to retrieve her is a puzzle ; I expect he was telling a tale , but even this made him a very disagreeable character . |
| 10 | I expect he was after a squirrel or a bird up there ; he 's a regular hunter . |
| 11 | I expect he was using it , as Winston did his famous chamber under No. 10 . |
| 12 | Well I expect he was hurt poor lad . |
| 13 | I expect he was hot . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I expect he was annoyed , dear , ’ she said judiciously . |
| 15 | ‘ I expect he was planning to get his job back once he 'd managed to get rid of you … ’ |
| 16 | I expect he was pleased to see you both . ’ |
| 17 | I expect he was days before |
| 18 | Police say they now realise he was innocent . |
| 19 | I heard one of the constables say he was a tip-top detective from London . ’ |
| 20 | Human rights group say he was in charge of Bolivian death squads responsible for murdering hundreds of journalists , political and labour leaders , and church officials . |
| 21 | Court papers say he was deeply depressed . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes he 'd cry about this , ’ she recalls , ‘ and say he was an awful nuisance to me . |
| 23 | James Cranko died in 1852 , aged about 28 ; some say he was poisoned . |
| 24 | He would get upset because he forgot some books and say he was stupid . |
| 25 | ‘ In England , sir , ’ Corbett replied tartly , ‘ they say he was drunk , but you were at the Council that evening . |
| 26 | He is not a man who courts company , often cutting a solitary and somewhat broody figure , but colleagues say he was frustrated by his lack of opportunities with England in the winter and , more recently , by his inability to build big innings for Middlesex . |
| 27 | The casualty rate so far was no more than might have been expected from the hazardous nature of the operation , and although he could not , in all honesty , say he was in command of the whole ship , he at least held the strategic upper hand . |
| 28 | Some say he was ‘ encouraged ’ to resign . |
| 29 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 30 | Bran the Blessed — some say he was a Celtic God , some a virtuous king — is really responsible for the legend of the ravens . |