Example sentences of "[vb past] he be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenny Logan won his first cap and demonstrated he is a player for the future . |
| 2 | ‘ He mentioned he was a friend of yours , ’ said Dolly . |
| 3 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 4 | But after checking his credentials they found he was a prize chump — forklift driver Nigel Mansell , from Byran-cum-Sutton , West Yorks . |
| 5 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 6 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 7 | On Oct. 14 a student , Sol In Jong , was found dead at Yonsei University in Seoul after being beaten and interrogated by other students who believed he was a police informer . |
| 8 | Only occasionally did villagers become impatient , thinking he was only pretending not to understand — they believed he was an ancestor in a white skin who was obsessed with privacy simply to maintain his secret . |
| 9 | He was simply aware that Gabriel 's allegiance had changed , that he spent all the spare time he could with Lucie and the girl , and that he no longer believed he was an angel . |
| 10 | His about-face once in office pleased economists , but robbed him of his mandate : the voters no longer believed he was the man they had elected . |
| 11 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 12 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 13 | The prioress muttered he was a pedlar , but the real source of the commotion was the corpse slumped across the fellow 's sumpter pony . |
| 14 | I learnt he was an old seaman who kept an inn , and he knew all the seamen in Bristol . |
| 15 | When the offences happened he was an unenthusiastic and below average soldier , the court heard . |
| 16 | They had got his birth certificate , which confirmed he was the only son of Sydney Marriot Marr , Major , late of the Royal Artillery , and Helen Marie Armitage . |
| 17 | Detective Eddy showed he was a man who appreciated horses as he ran his hands over Vulcan 's body . |
| 18 | The organisation claimed he was a Catholic who had been involved with the Army , the Royal Ulster Constabulary and loyalist terrorists . |
| 19 | Men claimed he was a shameless womaniser , but to women he was perfect , as if Wotan had dropped a bucket of pure sex from Valhalla and it had come to rest inside the muscled , blond Adonis . |
| 20 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 21 | THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer . |
| 22 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 23 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 24 | And he claimed he was the victim of a ‘ mystery ’ vendetta . |
| 25 | De Monte was a quiet , pious man who excelled in the madrigale spirituale which he also produced in great quantity , a celibate who never forgot he was an ecclesiastic ; Wert 's temperament was very different . |
| 26 | I reckoned he was the minister Clare was planning to denounce and I set about trying to discover his secret for myself . ’ |
| 27 | McNally alleged he was the victim of an unprovoked blow to the face which caused him to fall hitting his head on the floor . |
| 28 | Kenny Roberts remarked he was the most exciting 500 rider of all to watch , fighting his bucking YZR all the way , elbows jutting out as he attacked . |
| 29 | A WANDERING busker with a record of 50 convictions for being drunk and disorderly was given a conditional discharge by Scarborough Magistrates yesterday after they heard he was a harmless nuisance . |
| 30 | If One of them I found , loved He was an expert as he said at coupling vestibules . |