Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] he [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 2 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 3 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 4 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |
| 5 | But serious allegations had already been made against him by this date . |
| 6 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 7 | That is not said by way of criticism , because the case does not appear primarily to have been argued before him on that basis . |
| 8 | Now here 's something to argue about this weekend … what would you say is the hardest … or toughest race to win in sport … football 's league title … formula one … the olympic marathon … how about the jockeys championship … they 've been off and running for six months and leading the chase is Oxfordshire ’ s Richard Dunwoody … we 're riding with him for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 9 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 10 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 11 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 12 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 13 | He should eat his fill of watermelon ( ‘ the best of all fruits ’ ) and ‘ rice boiled with spices should be preferred by him to all other eatables . ’ |
| 14 | Who could it be calling on him at this time of night ? |
| 15 | Until the age of seven , Nicholas had received a treat every year on the Feast Day of his patron ; and from the age of ten he grew to know that the day would generally be marked for him in some way or another — in many different ways , although not every year — until , of course , his wife Marian died . |
| 16 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 17 | It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital . |
| 18 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |
| 19 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 20 | I was fortunate to have been associated with him in this development over the first half of the 1940s . |
| 21 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 22 | Saad Rashid was a shrewd man , good with figures , but it did not take his shrewdness to know that a sentence of death would have been passed upon him by those who had once been his colleagues in Baghdad . |
| 23 | But the man was a fool , a low-grade Pessarane Behesht attachment who had been foisted on him by some egocentric mullah operating from Geneva . |
| 24 | In January also he had to speak at Pusey House in Oxford on " The Lambeth Conference and Education " , but one student 's disappointment at his performance on this occasion suggests the strain and lack of preparedness which were forced on him during this period : " In questions Mr Eliot was most feeble and hesitant , humming and hawing much and throwing back the questions with " Is that not what I said ? " or " Does it not prove my point ? " |
| 25 | She had never been kissed by him in all the years she had known him — apart from a brotherly peck on the cheek . |
| 26 | Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year . |
| 27 | No more is heard of him after this , although Kympton was acting as agent for the commissioners of the sick and wounded at Plymouth in 1703 . |
| 28 | The child 's subconscious reaction remains the same and , unless careful understanding is given to him at each stage of his growing up , he will spend the rest of his life in such a way that he reinforces that self-image which tells him that he is not worthy of receiving love . |
| 29 | They were first noticed by Poynting and the effect is named after him in this branch of materials science . |
| 30 | A proposal for a Private Member 's Bill may emanate from the Member himself , or may have been urged upon him by another Member or Members , or by an outside pressure or interest group . |