Example sentences of "[verb] he [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know he 's the same s in South Ronaldsay or not would he be different s ? |
| 2 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 3 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 4 | Useless for Boswell to point out that notwithstanding the title ‘ Doctor ’ , physick did not belong in Johnson 's otherwise comprehensive repertoire , and here it was that the landlord made a distinction which so pleased Johnson : ‘ They say he is the greatest man in England , except Lord Mansfield . ’ |
| 5 | In a letter of ‘ unanimous support ’ published in The Times today board members say he is the best person to lead the corporation . |
| 6 | But they say he 's the greatest photographer of all time . ’ |
| 7 | Kee looked at Karen and said quietly , ‘ Some people say he was the strongest houngan of all , the houngan we call Baron Samedi . ’ |
| 8 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 9 | ‘ Peter [ Scudamore ] says he 's the best hurdler he has ridden , ’ he added . |
| 10 | I 've always said he 's the best man for the job . |
| 11 | I would n't have thought he was the right bloke for this kind of operation , ’ Hitch said . |
| 12 | Honestly , Henry , when I think back to when I first saw Andrew Jones in that mucky room , the thin weed of a lad with nothing about him , I can not believe he 's the same person represented by Mr Andrew Jones , not only head of the showrooms , but … |
| 13 | They had got his birth certificate , which confirmed he was the only son of Sydney Marriot Marr , Major , late of the Royal Artillery , and Helen Marie Armitage . |
| 14 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 15 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 16 | His handwriting was so bad that Mr Sunderland had pinned his composition to the notice-board in the hall so everyone could see he was the worst writer in the whole school . |
| 17 | I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head . |
| 18 | Martha said : " And do n't start making objections , just because you know he 's the better fisherman . " |
| 19 | The Scots have four decent locks , although they failed to cope with John Eales ; but remember he is the best lock in the world . |
| 20 | A week later Adam got a letter saying he was the sole beneficiary under the will of his late great-uncle . |
| 21 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 22 | I believe he 's the best driver in the game , and I do n't think there 's a guy on the US Tour who can drive as far as Greg Norman can . |
| 23 | I believe he was the Wandering Jew , doomed to live forever . |
| 24 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 25 | ‘ Now he 's proved he 's the best sprinter in the world . |
| 26 | It 's just the kind of situation where a man feels he 's the only guy in the world who does n't know the form and it 's embarrassing . |
| 27 | Whatever the pressures which drove bulimia sufferer Joanna to fake her own kidnap , it is Brian who feels he 's the real victim . |
| 28 | Stamina may be his strong point , but it does n't mean he 's the hardest climber in the world ’ . |
| 29 | Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job . |
| 30 | Similarly , in the Oval Test , Sobers put in a prodigious spell of bowling , keeping at it because his captain felt he was the right bowler for the situation . |