Example sentences of "[vb base] he [is] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect he 's a perfectly nice man . |
| 2 | I only say he is a man and will act like a man , given the chance . |
| 3 | Accordin' to Rodriguez , that is , so why dae ye say he is a cousin ? ’ |
| 4 | His family say he is a changed man . |
| 5 | In a letter of ‘ unanimous support ’ published in The Times today board members say he is the best person to lead the corporation . |
| 6 | Useless for Boswell to point out that notwithstanding the title ‘ Doctor ’ , physick did not belong in Johnson 's otherwise comprehensive repertoire , and here it was that the landlord made a distinction which so pleased Johnson : ‘ They say he is the greatest man in England , except Lord Mansfield . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They say he 's no ornament , ’ her mother said carefully . |
| 8 | If someone 's a brilliant coach , they say he 's no good at the more administrative side of the job . |
| 9 | ‘ I say he 's no business hanging around Florence . |
| 10 | But I do n't think you should just appoint somebody and say he 's a worker director . |
| 11 | ‘ People say he 's a nice guy . |
| 12 | Folks say he 's a hard man , but he 's all right , really . |
| 13 | I said , ‘ Just say he 's a friend . |
| 14 | They say he 's a hard bastard , like his dad . |
| 15 | ‘ You say he 's a friend of yours ? ’ |
| 16 | I 've heard some solicitor say He 's a great believer in your looking after yourself the kids will understand . |
| 17 | You say he 's a docker ? |
| 18 | If you say he 's a Leo , you really want to try and puncture his dignity a bit . |
| 19 | The funny thing is , he 's not very chatty or friendly ; people say he 's a very shy man . ’ |
| 20 | Some people say he 's a famous opera singer who likes to come incognito back to his roots . |
| 21 | The dead man 's teenage daughters say he 's a hero , and they 're not surprised he lost his life saving someone else |
| 22 | You must have control of your class , sometimes if you do n't , under , when I say he 's a weak teacher I do n't mean he 's a bad teacher . |
| 23 | say he 's a nice little fellow ! |
| 24 | They say he 's a pig 's ear queer ! |
| 25 | And you say he 's an anthropologist . ’ |
| 26 | But they say he 's the greatest photographer of all time . ’ |
| 27 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 28 | He could have been the finest brain surgeon England has ever seen … even blind he is a superb concert pianist … |
| 29 | ANC leaders decided to take on Gqozo because they figure he is the easiest to topple . |
| 30 | Oh look he 's a |