Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
| 2 | So he decides to be cautious and for the first few laps , he just sits and waits . |
| 3 | So over-blessed a nature must bring a man either to a throne or a grave before ever he lived to be old . |
| 4 | His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety . |
| 5 | Well what this springs up is the issue , one of the issues we started with which is democracy in the tyranny of the majority is what Mill recognizes is is that a maj well he claims to be concerned that the majority will make a decision which is against the interests of everyone , but he 's equally concerned about the issue that the majority might make a decision which is against the interests just of a picked-on minority , people with unpopular views , people who hold er members of a different religion and so on . |
| 6 | During his remaining years here he continued to be active as a Justice of the Peace . |
| 7 | ‘ Dunbar is there in the north , ’ said the prince , offering what even he felt to be dubious reassurance . |
| 8 | Yet he seemed to be able to switch off whatever it was he experienced . |
| 9 | Okay , he did get nervous around the par-4 17th , which he bogeyed after flying the green , but then again he likes to be nervous . |
| 10 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |