Example sentences of "[indef pn] he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 2 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 3 | But he had been there — he had watched someone he loved being drawn deeper and deeper into the morass . |
| 4 | ‘ Newley must realize that someone he knows is connected with the theft . ’ |
| 5 | Every single action the Profitboss performs , every single decision he makes and everything he says are geared to an end-result . |
| 6 | Levi can sometimes appear incapable of fiction , but it is no less apparent that everything he wrote was fiction . |
| 7 | I know he has a reputation for toughness that could match Martin 's any day , but the difference is that everything he does is legal and above board . |
| 8 | Just warn your friend Martin to be extra careful , because everything he does is under close scrutiny . |
| 9 | You can see into the mind of a normal , everyday man who has somehow become a murderer , he works in a way which is hard to understand , as everything he does is due to his obsession , which makes whatever he does perfectly acceptable to him , it 's almost as if he ca n't help it . |
| 10 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 11 | But everything he said was treated with almost obsessive distrust . |
| 12 | He respected the law , and everything he said was qualified by it . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , he genuinely believed that everything he said was true . |
| 14 | A brief stay at a house provided by the district council ended after just two days when everything he had was stolen . |
| 15 | Everything he did was enriched by a warm concern for other people that inspired affection from even slight acquaintances , and love from his closer colleagues . |
| 16 | His face wore that concentrated look she had grown used to , as if everything he did was the focus of all his energies — like the look when he 'd taken her in his arms and made his kiss seem the still point of the entire universe . |
| 17 | His strategy changed with bewildering suddenness , but everything he did was devoted to the same end , that was certain . |
| 18 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 19 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 20 | He placed an old towel on the bathroom floor so that it would not get wet and he ensured that everything he needed was within reach so that he did not have to move from the spot and so drip water everywhere . |
| 21 | You think he 's weak , but he could be as determined as you , about something he thinks is important . ’ |
| 22 | Observers such as IDC 's David Smith believe that of the big three HP is the most likely to make a move because unity plays to HP 's hand , something he says is not the case with either IBM or Digital . |
| 23 | The manifesto was something he had been ‘ blessed ’ to work on , ‘ honoured ’ to have been asked to help with . |
| 24 | She used the tone of voice she had used when he was little and she caught him doing something he had been expressly forbidden to do . |
| 25 | He scored another victory recently when the Labour Party abolished the unions ' block vote in the leadership elections , something he had been advocating for ages . |
| 26 | At the end of the lunch , Branson said in a faltering voice that there was something he had been thinking of doing , and he wanted to ask Laker how he would feel about it . |
| 27 | He knew that Grainne was gentle and strong and sensitive ; he knew this as if it was something he had been born knowing ; even so , he found himself remembering that the Wolfline were said to have old enchantments in their blood , and that the old enchantments were tinged with the dark sinister magic of the first sorcerers , and that the descendants of those long-ago Wolfkings could still spin their own bewitchments and weave their own spells . |
| 28 | As soon as her breasts were free of their thin cotton restraint , he licked the soft , warm flesh , as if the taste of her was something he had been craving for an eternity . |
| 29 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 30 | Dear , though , refuted any suggestions that his decision to leave Park , without a league win this year , was for any reason other than to win a place on the England ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand — something he felt was unlikely if he stayed with Park . |