Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing is known for certain about his parentage and birth , but David Fallows has suggested that he may have been the same man as John Boddenham , born in Oxford in 1422 , chorister and scholar of Winchester College and later scholar and fellow of New College , Oxford . |
| 2 | It was widely believed the committee wanted him , but insiders pointed out he may have been the wrong man for the job . |
| 3 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 4 | He should have been the principal suspect . ’ |
| 5 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 6 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 7 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 8 | He must have been the best-known and most celebrated inhabitant of Baldersdale — excepting Hannah Hauxwell , of course — within living memory . |
| 9 | He must have been the last to drink it . |
| 10 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 11 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 12 | There has been speculation that he might have been the ideal Tory candidate for the Hexham seat if he had not already given his allegiance to Langbaurgh . |
| 13 | He could have been the finest brain surgeon England has ever seen … even blind he is a superb concert pianist … |
| 14 | He could have been the greatest horse in the country , he beat Hugo Simon and Gladstone by a couple of seconds when we won the World Cup in Amsterdam . |
| 15 | He could have been the best footballer in the world if he 'd have bothered turning up and stuff , ’ Gedge told Sounds . |
| 16 | The bear went over the mountain , the mountain , the mountain , the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see , it all that he could see is the other side of the mountain all that he could see is the other side of the mountain , the bear went over the mountain |
| 17 | The bear went over the mountain , the mountain , the mountain , the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see , it all that he could see is the other side of the mountain all that he could see is the other side of the mountain , the bear went over the mountain |
| 18 | Bodie glanced up , but all he could see were the same madly flickering lines , and slowly moving blips . |
| 19 | to see what he could see , and all that he could see and all that he could see was the other side of the mountain , the other side of the mountain |
| 20 | and all that he could see was the other side of the mountain the other side of the mountain |
| 21 | The bear went over the mountain the bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain , to see what he could see , and all that he could see , and all that he could see was the other side of the mountain , the other side of the mountain the other side of the mountain was all that he could see |
| 22 | The bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain , to see what he could see and all that he could see , and all that he could see was the other side of the mountain , the other side of the mountain the other side of the mountain , was all that he could see |
| 23 | The bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain , oh grizzly , the bear went over the mountain , stop , to see what he could see and all that he could see , and all that he could see was the other side of the mountain , the other side of the mountain the other side of the mountain , was all that he could see |
| 24 | The bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain , the bear went over the mountain , to see what he could see , and stop , and all that he could see , and all that he could see was the other side of the mountain , the other side of the mountain the other side of the mountain , was all that he could see |
| 25 | For a moment all he could see was the great wall of surf , dark at its roots like a dyed blonde . |
| 26 | He thrust the curtains wider , pressed his face to the glass but still all he could see was the white material flapping backwards and forwards in the wind . |
| 27 | The sound of his parents ' calls were muffled and then grew distant and all he could hear was the rough footfall of the man on the rocks and scree and the sound of his breathing … |
| 28 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 29 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
| 30 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |