Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] he be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might also have been superfluous because he was now saying he had succeeded on his own . |
| 2 | Well it 's not very clear whether he 's actually thinking or seeing it . |
| 3 | It 's not clear whether he 's actually thinking about a fox or seeing a fox or so , yes . |
| 4 | Connolly told me over the intercom to stand clear as he was about to press the button of the destructor switch for the I.F.P. gear . |
| 5 | Buckingham must have realised something was wrong for he was quickly joined in the hall , first by Sir Richard and then by Lady Isabella . |
| 6 | But then he would have had to have been more obtuse than he was not to have known already . |
| 7 | The interesting thing , just in passing , that particular time of the year was not actually harvest time , and as Jesus looked over the harvest field it was n't the harvest field that was ripened corn , it was actually full of green shoots , and it is the harvest now is ripe , it 's plenteous because he was n't talking about that , he was talking about men and women . |
| 8 | He 'd be lucky if he was merely broken back into the Scouts for ten or twenty years . |
| 9 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ — Boy was not sure if he was yet allowed to address her by her name , did n't know if he yet had that right . |
| 10 | If a person has , say , five jobs to do as part of his professional responsibility , and is beginning to feel inadequate because he is n't doing them all perfectly … take on ten more . |
| 11 | It seems to me that he ca n't be that unhappy because he 's currently managing twelve vacancies deliberately , in order to produce underspend so that he can re-surface his car park , maintain privileged restaurants for his erm , senior officers , chauffeur driven car for himself and build a new hangar for his helicopter . |
| 12 | Her husband became irritable when he was not working . |
| 13 | Her love for him was intense and her sense of loss was as great when he was tragically killed in a crash on the way to visit her in New York a matter of months after winning the world middleweight title ; Piaf had persuaded him to make the trip . |
| 14 | If Ronald Kray really was as vile as he is herein depicted , he should have been put to death and swiftly forgotten . |
| 15 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 16 | Even if he does , he 's safe enough from us as long as he 's not pushing . |
| 17 | ‘ As long as he 's not fixing for another of his boys to play around with this alternative route through the mountains , ’ I said . |
| 18 | He did have one last setback , however : as long as he was not reciting he was free from tension in the neck but , as soon as he began to use his voice , all his old habits returned . |
| 19 | Eliot , who was tolerant of eccentrics as long as he was not expected to join their ranks , sometimes deplored the degree of ascetic zeal that was expected of the supporters . |
| 20 | Insensibly wish becomes want , arousing and tugging against a reluctance to leave his home country which was inactive as long as he was merely fantasizing . |
| 21 | But despite Chant 's shows of empathy , he was still just another servant , content to attend upon his master as long as he was promptly paid . |
| 22 | I was guilty because he was nearly killed . |
| 23 | The advantage of supine lying is that it allows the patient to work more easily , because the effect of gravity is reduced , and the patient feels safe because he is fully supported , so he can concentrate on perfect control of the selective movements in his limbs : this is an important stage in the preparation towards making steps , and ultimately to walking . |
| 24 | She strove to keep her amazement and joy out of her voice , to be as laconic as he was also struggling to be . |
| 25 | Moreover his duties had become more onerous for he was now teaching — still free of charge as the Founder 's will required — pupils from outside the area of the " towne of Stopforde [ and ] of other Townes thereabout " which had originally been stipulated . |
| 26 | ‘ He is the model of what a retired cricketer should be — a white haired , white whiskered , florid country gentlemen , close upon his three score years and ten , comfortably off , well-informed , and interested in and full of information about cricket in general , his own shire and town in particular where he is much respected . ’ |
| 27 | And I thought , I 'm just going to wait and see what he says , and I 'll say well they 'll be walking round naked cos he 's not bought them a pair of socks , pants , T-shirt jumper , nowt . |
| 28 | Simon was drinking like a fish ; he was n't getting on with Mary at all ; he was working too much , and they said he was worried as he was about to switch Parties . |
| 29 | It swung open as he was about to reach out for the handle . |
| 30 | He had left his hometown of Kiel in northern Germany and covered the distance to Wissembourg on the Franco-German border in the space of ten days but he was still uncertain where he was ultimately headed . |