Example sentences of "[verb] he be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know he 's the same s in South Ronaldsay or not would he be different s ? |
| 2 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 3 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 4 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 5 | She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said . |
| 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 | In a letter of ‘ unanimous support ’ published in The Times today board members say he is the best person to lead the corporation . |
| 8 | But they say he 's the greatest photographer of all time . ’ |
| 9 | Kee looked at Karen and said quietly , ‘ Some people say he was the strongest houngan of all , the houngan we call Baron Samedi . ’ |
| 10 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 11 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 12 | But Capirossi , just turned 18 , is determined success wo n't prevent him being the cheerful , friendly youth he 's always been . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Peter [ Scudamore ] says he 's the best hurdler he has ridden , ’ he added . |
| 15 | He says he is the best young goalkeeper by far in all the North-East clubs . ’ |
| 16 | Pliny names Archermos in a family of Chiot sculptors , and another writer says he was the first to give Nike wings . |
| 17 | ANC leaders decided to take on Gqozo because they figure he is the easiest to topple . |
| 18 | I 've always said he 's the best man for the job . |
| 19 | I would n't have thought he was the right bloke for this kind of operation , ’ Hitch said . |
| 20 | Honestly , Henry , when I think back to when I first saw Andrew Jones in that mucky room , the thin weed of a lad with nothing about him , I can not believe he 's the same person represented by Mr Andrew Jones , not only head of the showrooms , but … |
| 21 | I , I can remember bits of it now , but I could n't on fucking Thursday , I mean , there 's this bloke in er , they 're they 're doing a banking job , while doing a bank job and he still does n't believe he 's the main |
| 22 | ‘ On the race track everyone must believe he is the fastest . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . " |
| 25 | 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 . " |
| 26 | But I can see he 's the worse for wear , the weathering the worker wreaks on himself . |
| 27 | His handwriting was so bad that Mr Sunderland had pinned his composition to the notice-board in the hall so everyone could see he was the worst writer in the whole school . |
| 28 | I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head . |
| 29 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 30 | But in the USSR the state which employs him is the sole employer and is the same state which determines whether he have a house or not . |