Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State for Employment sought to protest when my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield suggested to him that we were near the bottom of the league tables , saying that we should not take too much account of them . |
| 2 | And I said ‘ yes ’ , and I reminded him that it was against the law for him to have possessed a wild animal in the first place , and he shrugged . |
| 3 | He also consulted constitutional experts who assured him that it was in the Prime Minister 's hands to do as he chose . |
| 4 | The parable is as follows : In an occupied country during wartime , a member of the resistance meets a stranger who deeply impresses him , and who assures him that he is on the side of the resistance . |
| 5 | I introduced your name in the conversation , said I was your Factor , told him that you were in the Lakes for pleasure but also with an eye to acquiring property , etc. , etc . |
| 6 | Yeah , his his number 's on the dice happen to leave him so he was on the race track , so it 's up to him now . |
| 7 | And I they were addressed to him and they were from the council and I simply said , er wrote on the outside erm no longer here , address not known . |
| 8 | He had brought Harbury with him and they were in the shade of the planes when she drove into the square . |
| 9 | Potter made straight for the peak and plummeted down the perpendicular drop : the lip curled over him and he was inside the tube . |
| 10 | I could have taken him if he 's on the public highway , I could have taken him to the police station . |
| 11 | The government will seek to extradite him if he was outside the country , Mr Coetsee said . |
| 12 | Her door was set back so that she did n't see him until he was past the cars in the centre of the courtyard . |
| 13 | Rhodri Jones , brother of Swansea 's Robert , replaces Chris Bridges at scrum-half in a move that surprised him but it is in the centres where Neath have been stretched . |
| 14 | I could n't caddie for him because I was with the central-heating men . |
| 15 | And he asked me to telephone him while you were at the Casa Madrid , and pretend I was Miguelito . ’ |
| 16 | In September 1928 , at the instigation of the diehards , the Empress was involved in yet another attempt to overthrow Ras Tafari ; her soldiers were ordered to arrest him while he was at the palace . |
| 17 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 18 | But even knowing that , we 're still as far from finding him as we are from the Holy Grail . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Copley took an occasional service at St Andrew 's when Mr Smollett , the vicar , was on holiday , an involvement in church and village life which , Meg suspected , was as important to him as it was to the church . |
| 20 | It makes me wild when I think , it does really , that Gran 's as much taken with him as he is with the child . |
| 21 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 22 | Mcallister does seem to be overshadowed by him when he is on the pitch , looking for him to take the lead , provide the inspiration etc which strach is no longer doing as well as he once did . |
| 23 | He posed the question whether the disadvantage of a judge speaking on matters which in one form or another — such as unfair dismissal from employment or from a trade union — might well come before him when he was on the bench was outweighed by the advantage of hearing his views or by the argument that he should not be prevented , by convention or otherwise , from speaking in Parliament on such a matter . |
| 24 | Adam phoned home and asked his mother to stop his father bothering him when he was in the middle of exams . |
| 25 | As long as an MP declares he or she is on the take these payments somehow are deemed acceptable . |
| 26 | ‘ And how do you check that the guest will be able to talk once he or she is on the show ? |
| 27 | The leader or high priest(ess) is chosen for the quality of psychic power exhibited , and how open he or she is to the life-force . |
| 28 | Do you stay with the baby at all times when he or she is in the bath ? |
| 29 | So unaccustomed may he or she be to the affection that you offer . |