Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be that he be " in BNC.

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1 You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs .
2 I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better .
3 The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident .
4 Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing .
5 The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed .
6 The trouble with him was that he was utterly astray here .
7 ‘ I think what came across most strongly about him is that he 's such a charming and pleasant person , ’ Dominic says of Justin .
8 The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do .
9 All I can tell you about him is that he was an ensign flying a Catalina aircraft in England thirty-two years ago . ’
10 She realised that the strange thing about him was that he was not drunk .
11 All I knew about him was that he was someone who belonged to Jean-Claude 's past , and that Jean-Claude was indebted to him .
12 Another plus for him is that he is no longer surrounded by girls and the English , as he now has Kyle MacDougall at the hostel , so along with Andrew they are beginning to affirm themselves .
13 But the one thing that does impress itself on you is that he 's so very competent .
14 ‘ One of the things that attracted us to him is that he is someone who is willing to stand up and speak against something that he believes is wrong . ’
15 What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism .
16 ‘ One of the odd things about it is that he was wearing brand-new clothes , ’ he added .
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