Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 'E 's worryin' the life out of 'is muvver .
2 When 'e 's backed the lorry in the yard we close the gates like I said .
3 Like many dictators , Gqozo is physically small , which has led to him being dubbed The Dwarf as well as The Ciskei Kid by his enemies .
4 The challenge for him is to improve the service of the ‘ head waiter ’ .
5 A police officer with a sheaf of papers before him was using the desk telephone presumably still checking alibis .
6 ‘ … In him was united the genius of the manufacturer and the habits of a scientific investigator ’ .
7 Holly heard only occasional talk about the burned office because the job of the men around him was to get the food inside their guts , get the warmth into their throats .
8 Bellerophon ‘ slew the Amazons , women peers of men ’ and Heracles , the most popular of Greek heroes , found that the Ninth Labour assigned to him was to seize the girdle of the Amazon queen .
9 Similarly , we can criticise wilko for being negative — but we do nt know if he s told the team to go out there and score at all costs , but the team just has nt responded .
10 The streetwise young black would have done just that , had he been given the chance .
11 Had he been telling the truth ?
12 His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day .
13 At Key Biscayne , a week before he expected to be competing in the doubles against Czechoslovakia in their Davis Cup quarter finals , he even started outlining some of the changes he would make should he be given the job .
14 So who will he be giving the information to ?
15 Historically the Sigmar votes tend to be cast on behalf of the Count of the Reikland , while the Ulric vote almost invariably goes to the Count of Middenheim should he be contesting the election .
16 ‘ Ye-es , ’ said Linley as though he were considering the predicament with sympathy .
17 He would need to ring for a cab if he were to regain the Party conference in comfort .
18 He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon .
19 as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape .
20 When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel .
21 Fagg emitted an interesting glugging sound , rather as if he were repeating the name of the insulted Vietnamese over and over again .
22 If he were to tell the truth it would provoke Newton into the next carriage across the Sands .
23 Actually , if he were offered the choice of going wherever he liked in the world , he would probably choose Wimbledon .
24 That is , he will not make the same judgements as he would make if he were viewing the scene itself .
25 If he were to discover the nature and the limits of this person he was — and , as time went by , stave off the timor mortis — fear of death — then he would go for the nerve and the bone , draw blood .
26 At the inspectorate he is advising the Home Secretary on policy in four crucial areas : complaints and discipline ; firearms ; public order and counter-terrorism .
27 He is wearing the mantle now , made from the skins of the hyrax , a flea-ridden animal which looks like a giant guinea pig .
28 ‘ I believe he is bringing the sport into disrepute .
29 If the defendant has made an interim payment before he pays in , his notice must specifically refer to the interim payment and aggregate the two amounts if he is to put the plaintiff at risk for the total .
30 Again at Easter he is arguing over his fee for attending the Archbishop at Canterbury and threatens that unless he is payed the sum of twenty shillings a day for three days he would never again obey the Archbishop 's mandate .
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