Example sentences of "[pron] that he be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NICK FARR-JONES picked up a ball for the first time in three months and reminded everyone that he is the world 's best scrum-half . |
| 2 | Fairfax tells me that he is a suitor , eager to lay claim to a girl who is now only eleven . |
| 3 | He answered : ‘ The man told me that he was a detective , and that I should say nothing about him to anyone . ’ |
| 4 | The taxi driver was a sharp-looking middle-aged man who told me that he was the landlord of the Dove bar in town . |
| 5 | When I told them that he was a chemist , one boy asked , ‘ Could n't they get a proper teacher , then ? ’ |
| 6 | Then he told himself that he was a nut who had written a book in her garage , and that he had no right to intrude . |
| 7 | He fought to control a sense of panic and reminded himself that he was a priest , a man ordained , sworn to God . |
| 8 | He had enjoyed the meal but was glad to be gone , reminding himself that he was a priest and Benedicta was the mistress of her own life . |
| 9 | Oh yes but he told somebody that he was a hairdresser . |
| 10 | I noticed Stuart has n't written up to say what he looks like , so I 'll tell you that he 's a cross between Paul Young and Griff Rhys-Jones . |
| 11 | ‘ Did he tell you that he was a carpenter ? ’ |
| 12 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
| 13 | She could not clear her head of him , however much she told herself that he was a bastard . |
| 14 | Dot knew from just looking at him that he was no hero , no villain either . |
| 15 | He was only able to shed that bondage through a charismatic experience which reassured him that he was a child of God . |
| 16 | When he told his assailant his name , he told him that he was a deceiver , a cheat , one who outwits others and extorts blessings from them . |
| 17 | He thought of telling her that he was a friend but friends did n't dive in through the front door ; they did n't have blood on their wrists nor cuts all over their faces ; they did n't have a rope burn round their necks and they wore shirts , at least until they were properly introduced . |
| 18 | It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail . |
| 19 | It had suddenly struck her that he was a stranger in the town , and might have nowhere to go . |
| 20 | His position was at outside-right , although later he occasionally switched wings , and his place as a regular , though unpaid , member of our 1913–14 side tells us that he was a credit to his club and craft because Palace only conceded the Southern League championship to Swindon Town on goal average at the end of a thrilling season . |