Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hates him for being the initial cause of his mother 's addiction and also the receiver of most of her attention . |
| 2 | He expected it to be the only example of its species on which he would set eyes . |
| 3 | And wherever he went in the city he found it to be the same . |
| 4 | I think you 'll find he wants him to be the best player in Scotland and NOT England |
| 5 | He wants her to be the top model in the world . |
| 6 | On the facts the sole issue was whether he believed himself to be the beneficiary . |
| 7 | But I mean you know he 's a workaholic and he expects everybody to be the same and then he works in there by the time I get there in the morning he works , works solidly right through until I leave there at night , you know . |
| 8 | It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody . |
| 9 | He likes all that , the cars and people calling him Minister , but he wanted her to be the good politician 's wife , doing his entertaining . |
| 10 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |
| 11 | That he intended her to be the sensation of town Dinah did not yet realise , but if she had done so it would not have disturbed her . |