Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 2 | He was simply lucky , perhaps , that the land which he sold had been allocated for residential purposes in a period when a new suburban city was coming into being . |
| 3 | On the phone from Canada , he jokes that one of the reasons he got involved was to get over the abortive attempts by Hollywood to film one of his scripts . |
| 4 | The main thing he got done was to defeat the General Strike . |
| 5 | That is done by considering a case in which a passenger can be held equally liable even though he sought to avoid being identified with the aggravated crime . |
| 6 | Mr Howell had debts of £500,000 even after everything he owned had been sold . |
| 7 | All he tried to do was relax and enjoy himself , ‘ and everything just fell into place . ’ |
| 8 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | The man who links together his prayer with deeds of duty , and fits seemly actions with his prayer , is the man who prays without ceasing , for his virtuous deeds or the commandments he has fulfilled are taken up as a part of his prayer . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that each of the two cases to which he has referred was decided by the trial judge on the basis of medical evidence , including independent medical evidence . |
| 11 | Then all he has to do is to press one digit , and the number is automatically dialled for him . |
| 12 | All he has to do is talk to the Whips , and we will have a debate on sport any time he likes . |
| 13 | All he has to do is drink a bottle a day , and he can skip lunch , keep late hours , loll around in his soft leather chair . |
| 14 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 15 | All he has to do is show he 's over a certain age can prove who he is , you can buy a gun . |
| 16 | All he has to do is to tell one person and then everyone in the Castle will know , from the Chief Secretary down . |
| 17 | If the Minister does not consider it worth while , all he has to do is call it in and either have a public inquiry or decide for himself whether it is a good scheme . |
| 18 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 19 | All he has to do is fill in the person 's name . |
| 20 | According to the apprentice chef , the Royal Oak is a good place to learn one 's trade — ‘ Chef knows what he 's doing and is prepared to help you , but he does n't push you too hard ’ — though the commis chef criticizes Tom for not being adventurous enough — ‘ He reckons all he has to do is to keep on producing good plain food and the customers 'll keep coming , but the fact is that it 's dull . ’ |
| 21 | the reason I propose giving he has to do is come |
| 22 | All he has done is to show , in a crude way , that , in order to increase the market value of the firm , one needs to identify opportunities where actual returns exceed those required for the risk involved ! |
| 23 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 24 | What he has done is to supply himself with a ridiculous experience by the telling of which he could entertain several hundred people , without having to undergo the dispiriting strain of suffering it first . |
| 25 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 26 | BOTTLING The blender 's task completed , the whiskies he has chosen are blended , then returned to casks to marry together for several months and finally bottled . |
| 27 | What he has learned is to bring any incipient conflict out into the open . |
| 28 | Mr McNeill said he has had been reading the Belfast Telegraph for years and enjoys doing the crossword first , perusing the television viewing and then gets around to reading the news . |
| 29 | Jim Harris , new president and CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation , was one of the very earliest in the door at Intel Corp , where he made his fortune : since 1988 , aside from his position on SCO 's board , he has has been occupied as a farmer in Minnesota . |
| 30 | It can record and turn into electrical impulses ‘ memories ’ of the past which he has found are stored in every object . |