Example sentences of "[vb past] he be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his ostrich outfit , make-up and deliberately not playing the synthesizer in order to question playing the synthesizer , Brain soon found he was stealing the scenery from Bryan , the suave debonair bloke who led Roxy music … |
| 2 | Husband said : ‘ It went wrong , badly wrong , ’ then lit a match and Sims found he was holding the ball again . |
| 3 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 4 | Isobel Winick shopped husband Steve , 45 , to bosses for taking tools home after she found he was having an affair . |
| 5 | In 1305 it was only Edward 's intervention which prevented him being appointed a justice in Scotland . |
| 6 | Cynics also believed he was taking a great risk when he cast Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , but both have been great successes . |
| 7 | Quite frequently a certain plant was reordered under a different name from the correct one and consequently the nurseryman , who honestly believed he was fulfilling the order , was dubbed a ‘ knave or a blockhead ’ , whereas the fault lay with ‘ too much dependence upon careless naming by an unexperienced author ’ . |
| 8 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 9 | Midfielder Bull believed he was to become a Manchester United player after a man claiming to be United managing director Martin Edwards agreed a £500,000 deal with manager Barry Fry and chairman Stan Flashman . |
| 10 | She told him that she firmly believed he was missing an experience to be treasured . |
| 11 | On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle . |
| 12 | I imagined he was filling a plastic screw-top , getting ready for ‘ work ’ . |
| 13 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 14 | As he sorted out the porter with amazingly fluent Spanish , Perdita noticed he was wearing a bomber jacket with US Open printed on the back . |
| 15 | He was castigated by a teacher and told he was letting the school down . |
| 16 | My mind began to play tricks , and I just assumed he was examining the snow structure for some reason . |
| 17 | Atkinson 's Ayresome Park performance showed he is relishing the chance to play alongside the £2.3 million new boy . |
| 18 | Patrick guessed he was bringing a tray into the sitting room , which gave him a few moments . |
| 19 | His eagerness to please ensured that he was put upon , and judging by the worn state of his clothes she guessed he was paid a pittance for it . |
| 20 | When he returned he was holding a thin card in one hand . |
| 21 | He was only gone a moment or two and when he returned he was holding the complete clasp . |
| 22 | The complicated narrative of the emancipation can not be reduced to the proposition that Alexander sensed he was facing a crisis and believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 23 | Leith asked quickly as she sensed he was getting a bit down . |
| 24 | He met the island 's emissaries under the huge saman tree where the old woman had lived in her treehouse , for Kit had established his command from this forest clearing ; he sensed he was usurping the mana of the great tree , and it invigorated him . |
| 25 | The film director said a threat was made after Mia discovered he was having an affair with her adopted daughter . |
| 26 | IN 1991 Barbara and her husband separated after a private detective she had hired discovered he was having an affair . |
| 27 | ‘ But I heard he was making a fortune flogging antiques in Los Angeles . ’ |
| 28 | SOCCER boss Ken Bates last night confessed he is having an affair with a woman football writer . |
| 29 | At the time he died he was carrying the bomb on his person . |
| 30 | Then she saw he was holding a large stick in one hand . |