Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was as if the only thing he cared about was the stupid thing . |
2 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
3 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
4 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
5 | That was the sound he found to be the worst , worse even than the cursing and swearing and threats he had witnessed last Friday night . |
6 | From obscure origins he rose to be the best-known Wiltshire clothier of his day , famous in the 1540s for his use of the buildings of Malmesbury Abbey as industrial workshops . |
7 | Brundle , who had risen briefly to third place during the tyre stops , was again completely out of luck and , like Johnny Herbert , was forced to retire by a collision in which he seemed to be the innocent party . |
8 | The King was in no position to make such a decision and , in any case , Baldwin had already decided to meet Parliament when he met the King on 10 December , and so the King did not even have to persuade him to adopt what he believed to be the correct course . |
9 | He was an outspoken opponent of episcopal pretensions and a staunch upholder of what he believed to be the ancient rights of the monastery of Evesham . |
10 | The seat he climbed into was the only empty one in the car . |
11 | In responding to a plea for help from Spain 's Popular Front government , Stalin was thus pursuing what he perceived to be the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union . |
12 | Set against these were what he took to be the essential strengths and cultural possibilities of the German spirit , which in recent generations — and most clearly in the age of Goethe — had been partially realized and whose full realization was an ever-present dream . |
13 | This is fighting talk , and suggests his fond memories of Maurras and the Action Française , but it was only talk — perhaps it was Eliot 's way of enlivening what he thought to be the muted tone of discussion in England ; perhaps it was also a method of inspiring his colleagues at the Moot whom he called " companions in affliction " , intellectuals or refugees who were on the periphery of events to which there was no foreseeable end . |
14 | If he went to be the head gardener of another greenhouse and did another ten years teaching among the geraniums , what species of hothouse plant might result ? |
15 | More than twenty years ago , the archivist Emmison tried to convey to teachers what he felt to be the special qualities of an original document : The original document is in a sense more real than any text book can hope to be ; for the writer , though he may have been misguided , biased or mistaken , at least lived through the events of which he speaks ; and whatever his shortcomings , he was in certain respects better informed about the times and conditions in which he lived than is the interpreter writing two or three hundred years afterwards . |
16 | It was noticed , too , that he had taken the precaution of having some shoes with built-up heels made , so that when the ceremony was over and he took his wife 's arm to move slowly down the aisle , he appeared to be the same height as her , or very nearly . |
17 | Yet he proved to be the right man in the right place at the right time . |
18 | Said he wanted to be the pretty one for a change . |
19 | By writing this story virtually as a film script and having it turned into a film very soon afterwards , Franco made it clear that Raza also represented what he wanted to be the popular , mass vision of him . |
20 | DAVID FEHERTY played what he considered to be the best golf of his life in the BMW tournament in Munich yesterday , thanks largely to a tip from a friend . |
21 | Burn said that immediately after the assessors were appointed he proposed that each judge should examine the schemes separately and indicate on them which he considered to be the best . |
22 | He used an external filter which he considered to be the best option , as it would be quiet , easy to maintain and would keep the water cleaner . |
23 | Mr Finlay 's main concern about bookshop events was what he considered to be the unequal sharing of costs . |
24 | His depression had been caused at first by what he considered to be the disturbing condition of the victors after the war : he was uneasy about the foreign policy of both England and the United States , as well as about the intentions of Russia . |
25 | Professor Kellert used the results of his survey to identify what he considered to be the main animal characteristics that guided North American preferences . |
26 | Following the organic method Spengler delineated what he considered to be the significant ideas and symbols of the spring , summer , autumn and winter phases of each culture . |
27 | In 1904 the Daily Mail published his campaign against what he considered to be the unjust imprisonment of Adolf Beck which , it was claimed , was partly responsible for the Criminal Appeal Act , 1907 . |
28 | Once more Bukharin dwelt upon what he considered to be the unique character of the Russian revolution : that it was a combination of workers revolution and peasant war , which implied the need for a long-term alliance between the two classes . |
29 | He specialised in collecting the work of four artists he considered to be the true Cubists , Picasso , Braque , Leger and Gris . |
30 | During the course of his argument Bukharin sketched out what he considered to be the three variants of the development of agriculture under capitalism , these were : |