Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm police went to visit him again , and says erm you know that 's it , you know , you wo n't , wo n't , you wo n't even be needed to make a statement about where you found it , which he thought was a bit funny . |
| 2 | In his will he left sizeable sums for schools he had built in his home parishes , as well as for Christ 's Hospital , of which he had been a donation governor in 1833 . |
| 3 | It would be relatively simple — she could think at once of how it could be done : the casual enquiry of a mutual friend with whom she still exchanged Christmas cards , the phone call to the college at which he had been a lecturer . |
| 4 | SIR JOSEPH BURKE , who has died aged 78 , was Professor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University for more than three decades , before which he had been a member of Attlee 's secretariat at 10 Downing Street . |
| 5 | Lord Bridge then gave his reasons for acknowledging that the Court of Appeal , of which he had been a member , in De Falco v. Crawley Borough Council was wrong to hold that a challenge to a housing authority 's decision on intentional homelessness could be made by action as well as by judicial review , and continued , at p. 294 : |
| 6 | I wanted to include his doctors and nurses at both hospitals in which he had been a patient , and our friends in the residential home . |
| 7 | He bequeathed his valuable genealogical collections to the Society of Antiquaries , of which he had been a fellow since 1901 . |
| 8 | In 1965 he resigned from Sinn Féin , of which he had been a vice-president , because of its refusal to recognise the legitimacy of both governments in Ireland . |
| 9 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 10 | In 1984 he had nothing left to prove — he was successful , shooting stock shots for The Image Bank , which he 'd been a director of for six years . |
| 11 | He was in a field , and picked out what he thought was a wood , to which he headed and placed his unwanted gear in a ditch , covering it with tufts or grass . |
| 12 | He narrowly missed what he thought was a lamp post but turned out to be a tree , and reached for where the handle was usually to be found on a front door . |
| 13 | Farmer Colin French received injuriesd to hisbface and hands when he opned what he thought was a video package this morning . |
| 14 | A BURGLAR broke his ankles when he leapt out of what he thought was a first-floor window at Bristol — and fell four storeys . |
| 15 | A BURGLAR broke his ankles when he leapt out of what he thought was a first-floor window at Bristol — and fell four storeys . |
| 16 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 17 | Erm we had one morning , one of our sergeants saw what he thought was a break-in . |
| 18 | He later told her he began to feel unwell at about 8 and at 10 doubled over with what he thought was a stitch . |
| 19 | But what he meant was a mystery to Marian . |
| 20 | What he meant was a balance . |
| 21 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 22 | What he saw was a man of about sixty years , older than he had expected , but still hale , and of a powerful frame . |
| 23 | He would commit a nuisance just as much if what he owned were a manure heap . |
| 24 | What he wanted was a position within the Empire — according to the historian Orosius , he wished to support Rome with barbarian arms . |
| 25 | Three days later the matron had to take care of Clive Fairbrother , who lost half of one of his front teeth in what he claimed was a game of dormitory rugby after lights-out with Murray . |
| 26 | What he needed was a bit of luck on the roll . |
| 27 | What he needed was a lever . |
| 28 | And what he found was a woman who understood him a great deal better than his wife ever did . ’ |