Example sentences of "him [that] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him that is formless . |
| 2 | There is a part of him which always loved the soft life of the Brazilian beaches , the sun , the sea , the sport , the girls ; and there is another part of him that is quite ruthless , highly organized , very self-promoting and ambitious . |
| 3 | Lodovico gives an external judgement on him that is essentially right : ‘ O thou Othello , that wert once so good , /Fallen in the practice of a damned slave ’ ( 293f . ) . |
| 4 | The staff had a hard time assuring him that is was all make-believe . |
| 5 | And on this shelf I keep his letters — ; letters to him that is . |
| 6 | I told him that 's not saying much — I 'm just not a junkie or an alcoholic or a prostitute . |
| 7 | As the chauffeur drives us home , he tells us what a lovely girl that Denice is , and we tell him that 's the truth . |
| 8 | ‘ They think it 's him that 's killing the sheep . |
| 9 | ‘ I heard about this today from auld Timmins , him that 's the under-manager to Brackenridge in Soft Bric-a-brac and Genteel Furnishings . |
| 10 | But how can I look him in the face and tell him that 's turned out to be true ? ’ |
| 11 | Now find him that 's your brief ! ’ |
| 12 | Are aye with him that 's far away . |
| 13 | ‘ Let me see if it 's him that 's bleeding . |
| 14 | Afraid to make friends with the other students ( Is it him that 's the spy ? |
| 15 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 16 | Him that 's dead . ’ |
| 17 | If it is him that 's off then it not TOO bad , ( apolgies to Halvard ) at least it 's not Macca or Speed ( or even Mr Newsome ) . |
| 18 | She says he 's very happy and it 's very important to him that 's he 's arrived at Stoke Manceville because it 's well known . |
| 19 | ‘ I told him that was quite unnecessary , ’ Beeson said . |
| 20 | Even as Philip pushed the boy to the ground he could n't believe it was him that was doing it . |
| 21 | It was n't him that was worrying the sheep . |
| 22 | ‘ O Lord my God , if I have done this , if there be iniquity in my hands , if I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me ’ leapt out from Psalm 7 and so did ‘ Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end ’ . |
| 23 | He ‘ had a frank and easy way with him that was very taking … |
| 24 | Reason told him that was all nonsense ; but reason was being steadily eroded by a terrible unnatural fear over which he was losing all control . |
| 25 | ‘ Him that was in the Merchant Navy . ’ |
| 26 | I told him that was precisely why he should play it , because it touched him , reached into his character , asked questions as boxers do when staring each other down . |
| 27 | She recited a poem to him that was well-known in the district . |
| 28 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 29 | One thing about him that was widely known was the fact that he was a businessman , and so it was as such that he was welcomed ; the party could even claim some credit for being the first to elect a businessman as its leader — much as it claimed credit in 1975 for electing a woman , although Margaret Thatcher had certainly not been chosen for that reason . |
| 30 | Liz wanted to get on to the exciting bits , in which Job demanded why light was given to him that was in misery , and life to the bitter in soul : in which Job desired to argue with his God : in which the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind : but she knew it would be cheating to miss out the she-asses and skip to the livelier parts , so she plodded dully on with the dull narrative . |