Example sentences of "[verb] he be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these who visited him was the Comte Alexandre de Marenches , the conservative head of the French secret service , who had known and admired the Shah for years . |
| 2 | After both the disaster and the sinking in the Channel last week , the government will Lord did you know he 's the Shipping Minister ? |
| 3 | How did I know he was the world 's greatest ? |
| 4 | As a further result women were subordinated sexually , because the change to patriliny and monogamy restricted the sexual freedom of the woman , in that it was essential for the man to know he was the father of her children . |
| 5 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 6 | He would confess all , go on his knees , say he was the Prince 's slave , buy him expensive presents … |
| 7 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |
| 8 | As Shaffer added : ‘ What distinguished him was the energy he always demonstrated . |
| 9 | Perhaps what told him was the attention they paid to the drunk man who weaved his way , shouting and stumbling , down the car . |
| 10 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 11 | What antagonises him is the prospect of the civiliser being rendered savage , the moral made immoral . |
| 12 | The choice of McLeish as captain will , Roxburgh believes , remove an unwanted , additional pressure from McStay 's shoulders and let him be the midfield schemer who orchestrates the emphatic victory essential to Scotland 's progress . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He would sit and hold her , rocking her gently to and fro as if she was a child whilst she , muttering gibberish , rubbed salt into his wound by believing he was the nobleman come back to claim her . |
| 15 | Now Mallius Seneca , who says he is the uncle of Seius Oceanus , is claiming the property on the ground of proximity , but Maximus claims it for himself since the person to whom he was asked to restore it has died . |
| 16 | I ask whether this property should belong to the trustee-heir , Captain Valerius Maximus , or to Mallius Seneca who says he is the uncle of the deceased boy . |
| 17 | The prosecution says he was the driver of the Renault 25 . |
| 18 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 19 | Barry Lloyd , who set up the Gulf Families Association , and still counsels soldiers and their families , says he was the victim of a smear campaign . |
| 20 | He says he was the victim of medical negligence twenty five years ago at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmay when an unecessary operation is said to have left him severely disabled . |
| 21 | One of John Hill 's best friends , who 's helped found the Cotwsold Motorboat racing club with him 30 years ago , says he was the sports leading lights … |
| 22 | To quote Piesse again , " If there is much legal jargon and intricacy of arrangement [ the client ] may feel he is the victim of some art practised perhaps for the draftsman 's own purposes or at least with neglectful indifference to its effect on ordinary people " ( p54 ) . |
| 23 | I do n't expect he 's the consultant , or even the registrar — they do the operations . |
| 24 | There was nothing more she could say or do to prove that what she had told him was the truth . |
| 25 | Well , Shannon had never met an idol yet who did n't possess feet of clay , and there was nothing to suggest he was the exception . |
| 26 | And if you want to know , I would n't have thought he was the type to be interested-not at all . ’ |
| 27 | In October , she and the baby moved to London to join her former boyfriend , Danny Palmer , also then 16 , who may have thought he was the father . |
| 28 | Adebayo remembers his reaction : ‘ If you meet Victor you would n't believe he 's the author of a book , he looks more like a gangster . |
| 29 | And he claimed he was the victim of a ‘ mystery ’ vendetta . |
| 30 | I reckoned he was the minister Clare was planning to denounce and I set about trying to discover his secret for myself . ’ |