Example sentences of "he [verb] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier on in the same piece of writing , in the same letter to the Philippians he had said that for him to die was gain . |
| 2 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
| 3 | His source for this information is not given , but he does mention the existence of documents signed by a man of this name which show him to have been kadi of Cirmen and of Edirne . |
| 4 | The first time this American woman had fellated him had been perfection . |
| 5 | What he asked was guidance in the matter of a young man 's death , a clean young man who handled lambs with gentleness and care , as lambs of God , and never deserved to be done to death suddenly before his time , however the love of God might have set a secure hand under him as he fell , and lifted him into light . |
| 6 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 7 | I realised that the ‘ trust ’ which he sought was silence . |
| 8 | At one point , ‘ all he sought was death ’ ; and the next paragraph has him aching to be ‘ out of the road of trouble and strife and all things rotten and putrefied and shitey ’ . |
| 9 | In them you will see in the hands of a master ( though not every book he writes is farce crime ) how to achieve that build-up of ever more ridiculous events that is the key to success in this form of crime fiction . |
| 10 | The Rev Leslie Gready was led from the Friday morning service to the grounds of St Cuthbert 's Church , Darlington , where he has been vicar for the last ten years . |
| 11 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 12 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance comittee . |
| 13 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance committee . |
| 14 | He has been chairman of the all-party Anglo-Irish Group since 1979 . |
| 15 | He has been chairman of the road safety committee since 1986 . |
| 16 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 17 | Since 1988 he has been chairman of CAFOD . |
| 18 | Since 1990 he has been Chairman of the English Shakespeare Company . |
| 19 | He has been Chairman of Tesco since 1985 and is also a non-executive Director of National Westminster Bank . |
| 20 | Special interests include planning and the environment ; he has been chairman of the borough planning committee for 16 years . |
| 21 | Indeed , he has now won three of his last six tournaments , in two more of which he has been second . |
| 22 | During his time at the flour mill ( which is actually 30 years if you include an earlier spell ) he has been mixerman , cuber operator , machine man , bran packer and even cleaner — when there were seven employees per shift ! |
| 23 | A member of Reading & Leighton Park Canoe Club , he has been Publicity Officer for the Devizes to Westminster Race , Treasurer of the Marathon Committee and Southern Region Secretary . |
| 24 | He has been branch representative in most of the branches in which he has worked . |
| 25 | He has been branch representative in most branches in which he has worked and an Area Council member for 15 years . |
| 26 | He has been part of the decision-making process to broaden the game 's amateur ideals : ‘ The players now have a very square deal worked out ’ . |
| 27 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 28 | The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep . |
| 29 | He has been principal of Heriot-Watt since 1989 . |
| 30 | In the five years since , he has been world champion three times , but the British Open has eluded him . |