Example sentences of "[conj] he [be] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amenhotep , who had been found with a garland of flowers still round his neck , went by train , first class sleeper , where he was given the top bunk . |
| 2 | The sergeant-major fought on the Somme , where he was awarded the Military Medal , so he knows exactly what you can expect when we eventually end up in France and have to face the enemy . |
| 3 | ‘ Well — suppose they 're not your clubs at all — or he 's nicked the putter ? ’ |
| 4 | Although he 's survived the cancer so far , it has n't altered the fact that he will probably be in a wheelchair by the age of 10 — or that A-T could kill him before he 's 20 , unless a cure is found . |
| 5 | The obscuring by detail of some of his more fundamental and original conclusions may have resulted in formal recognition of his contributions coming rather late in his life , although he was awarded the Murchison medal of the Geological Society in 1906 and was president of the Geological Society of Edinburgh from 1908 to 1910 . |
| 6 | Kemalpasazade sought the advice of Mueyyedzade who counselled him to feign acceptance of Hacihasanzade 's proposal ; and when , on the next day , the latter petitioned the sultan , Bayezid II , to appoint Kemalpasazade to a kadilik , Mueyyedzade intervened , speaking highly of Kemalpasazade 's abilities and asking that he not be wasted in a kadilik but rather that he be given the vacant Taslik medrese so that he might busy himself with the pursuit of learning . |
| 7 | And if it came to court she would make a plea that he be given the care of his daughter until she became of age . |
| 8 | A few miles further on , the eleven-year-old fell asleep in his saddle and Gloucester , unwilling to call a halt at that stage and thus delay their entry into London , insisted that he be conveyed the rest of the way in a horse-drawn litter . |
| 9 | He says that he 's heard the shipping companyw ant to re-export the dog , but it would be a brave man who risked trying move the animal in it 's present condition . |
| 10 | Bush is so certain that he 's lost The Big Three he has stopped campaigning there , concentrating on a dozen battleground states which could go either way . |
| 11 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 12 | But I think the thing that runs through the whole collection and that makes Doisneau a remarkable photographer , is that he 's photographed the same locality and this is the locality where he still lives , really from the early 30s right through to the present . |
| 13 | He says that he 's advised the farm owner that conditions are n't up to scratch , he says he 'll return to check that things have been put right . |
| 14 | They attempt to direct the ball ‘ close to the batsman ’ so that he is denied the room to swing the bat freely and hit the ball hard . |
| 15 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 16 | The same chap also revealed that he was given the nickname Colonel because he was so self-important . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It is n't for nothing that he was called the most dangerous man in the galaxy . ’ |
| 18 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 19 | Once he 's harvested the wheat crop , there 's still the beans , which can not be cut because of the rain . |
| 20 | ‘ Lord , there is one ruler over all the known worlds , and he is called the Emperor . |
| 21 | Johann works for the Duke and he 's seen the King . |
| 22 | He 's in an outpost up on Evelyn Street , and he 's seen the Sierra burning by . |
| 23 | He 's only thirty-four , and he 's done the same thing all over the Far East , taking over struggling and usually amateur or pirate radio stations like this one once was , and putting in people like me who pull commercial sponsorship because we draw listeners . |
| 24 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 25 | If you have a lot of dead artists on you books you function quite differently — Leslie Waddington only needs to seel one Picasso and he 's paid the rent . |
| 26 | He no longer drives a two-tone Rolls , no longer smokes or drinks , and he 's changed the colours of his Victorian house in Primrose Hill from black to white . |
| 27 | ‘ But he wants you all to himself — and he 's found the best way to do that is to take away the pleasure you find in singing . |
| 28 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
| 29 | And then we had this man that used to come from India and he was called the Viceroy of India . |
| 30 | Newton transformed the game after Fleck limped off following a kick up the backside and he was given the lone striker 's role . |