Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] he [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |
| 5 | Simone Thiroux , the Canadian student so enamoured of Modigliani , was still shadowing him ; by now she was pregnant and claiming he was the father . |
| 6 | Presently a man with greying hair and specs came in and said he was the doctor who was going to remove the polyps . |
| 7 | If the passenger is not in possession of a licence , but states he is the holder of the necessary licence , further enquiries will be made by the police officer to ascertain whether or not he is a duly licensed driver . |
| 8 | The Scots have four decent locks , although they failed to cope with John Eales ; but remember he is the best lock in the world . |