Example sentences of "[subord] he be [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alberts was expected to plead guilty to starting a fire at the Schiller University in Waterloo , south London , where he was studying hotel management . |
| 2 | Lewis insisted that if he was crowned WBC champion by default he was ready to put his title on the line next spring against a British opponent — but it would n't be Frank Bruno . |
| 3 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going tonight , ’ he said , scuffing the paragraph in The Stage hard with his foot as if he were rubbing cigarette ash into the carpet . |
| 5 | because he 's playing table tennis all the time now |
| 6 | We shall never know whether he was counting Mark Twain . |
| 7 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 8 | The biography pushed out by Whitehall when he was appointed Cabinet Secretary in January , 1988 , makes his rise to the top seem almost inevitable . |
| 9 | His ascent began 10 years ago when he was made marketing director of Lever in the Netherlands . |
| 10 | JIMMY WHITE finally shed his nearly-man tag when he was crowned UK champion at Preston last night . |
| 11 | Headteacher David Darlington said he had decided to ask the elderly to lunch after seeing how many lived by themselves when he was delivering harvest food parcels in the autumn . |
| 12 | See the old man was saying when he was doing Salisbury Plain they blew up couple of and a couple of |
| 13 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 14 | As he was watching Bathsheba selling wheat to another farmer , he was filled with jealousy . |
| 15 | A number were unfortunate enough to be mistaken for spies after ‘ failing to heed warning challenges ’ , and got shot at , although there was only one reported death : a James Waddell of Grangemouth , near Edinburgh , was shot through the hand and heart as he was examining flood damage in the course of his employment duties . |
| 16 | Dai Walter Jones ( no relation ) was given a job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ after being hospitalized for five years with a serious illness and with little prospect of finding employment elsewhere as he was approaching retirement age . |