Example sentences of "he [be] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the former manager of the Locomotion Leisure Centre at the Blackwell Grange Moat House hotel in Darlington . |
| 2 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |
| 3 | A John Warre is found in the 1650s , buying up sequestrated Royalist estates , but there is no evidence that he is the same man . |
| 4 | The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain , as young or old , but it is essentially the same myth ; Tom Jones is not the same person , but he is the same myth as Squire Western ; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth ; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus , more than a national character . |
| 5 | I also feel very sorry for him : he is the same age as me and I would hate to be put under the pressure that was evident in his shaking frame after his statement . |
| 6 | Honestly , Henry , when I think back to when I first saw Andrew Jones in that mucky room , the thin weed of a lad with nothing about him , I can not believe he 's the same person represented by Mr Andrew Jones , not only head of the showrooms , but … |
| 7 | I do n't know he 's the same s in South Ronaldsay or not would he be different s ? |
| 8 | He 's erm three no he 's the same age as her baby next door I think . |
| 9 | I went to this man today and he 's a real doddery old soul and he 's the same age as gran |
| 10 | and he 's the same age as granddad , I could n't believe it and he was saying about well I 'm seventy one this year actually younger than my dad and he looks really old and we were |
| 11 | He was the former Republican leader in the House of Representatives , and had been chosen as Vice-President for his reputation for honesty rather than for any outstanding political qualities . |
| 12 | But as his mother observed , he was the same Peter , he 'd pick himself up somehow . |
| 13 | He was the same kind of man , too . |
| 14 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |
| 15 | Everybody knew the blind fiddler and he had always his kilt on and But after a while , I do n't know , the next time he came round I mind he had trousers on and we did n't think he was the same man at all , no . |
| 16 | Marks had grown greyer , more hairy , more stringy in the years-since their last meeting but he was the same man , shrewd , cynical , and a cop to the bone . |
| 17 | It is not unlikely that he was the same man as Barates the Palmyrene whose wife Regina was buried at South Shields ; a Catuvellaunian by birth , she was at first his slave before he freed and married her . |
| 18 | If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him . |
| 19 | She helped to produce a sketch of her assailant and as a result of its publication , another woman told police that he was the same man who had attacked her the day before . |
| 20 | Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized . |
| 21 | He was the same Michael , but grown up , and just as engaging and delightful to work with as when he was a kid . ’ |
| 22 | He 's a year younger than Thomas but he was the same height |
| 23 | I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head . |
| 24 | I had no doubt he was the same age as me — his round face was not particularly lined — but he had the hairline of a ninety-year-old . |
| 25 | He was the same age as old Jack Ryan and well remembered the smell of the pigs he brought with him into the pub of an evening . |
| 26 | He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 27 | She had been very lonely before he arrived , with no one to talk to but her brother , Walter , and he was the most taciturn of men . |