Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His response to a Christian who might approach him with the request to convert to Hinduism would be to urge him to try to be a good Christian since the Gītā could offer him no more than the Bible . |
| 2 | Going along with him seemed to be the best way of getting rid of him . |
| 3 | Armed with such views , Mosley entered upon a turbulent political career which saw him move from being the Conservative MP for Harrow in 1918 to , after several political adjustments , becoming Labour MP for Smethwick in 1926 . |
| 4 | Voronov-Vaux himself wore a casque that covered his whole head , making him seem to be a human lizard with great red eyes . |
| 5 | If he lived to be a hundred , he 'd never get used to this evil oozing cold . |
| 6 | Nor , however , did he want to be an active participant . |
| 7 | It was as if the only thing he cared about was the stupid thing . |
| 8 | It may well have related to his envy of the nursing pair and the demand he experienced to be a good father . |
| 9 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
| 10 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 11 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
| 12 | For the time being , he ceased to be a cloistered academic and became once more the son of the police-court solicitor in Belfast , the city where the most popular political slogan at election times was ‘ Vote early , vote often ’ . |
| 13 | But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney . |
| 14 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
| 15 | That was the sound he found to be the worst , worse even than the cursing and swearing and threats he had witnessed last Friday night . |
| 16 | Second , he has to be a prolific print-maker , and the prints themselves , though perhaps individually rare , must collectively be in reasonably good supply . |
| 17 | If he went to Cambridge , especially if he was homosexual , he has to be the Sixth Man or someone . |
| 18 | But what you have to understand is that he 's the biggest thing in these villages , so he has to be the biggest thing in my life . |
| 19 | Which commandment did he consider to be the greatest ? |
| 20 | He changed from being a nice lad into being violent . |
| 21 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 22 | From obscure origins he rose to be the best-known Wiltshire clothier of his day , famous in the 1540s for his use of the buildings of Malmesbury Abbey as industrial workshops . |
| 23 | He wants to be the real power there , rather than a minority , ’ the aide said . |
| 24 | He pretended to be a qualified gynaecologist , although he had not passed the relevant professional exams . |
| 25 | Only in Petrushka is he seen to be the principal player in the action and even then only the actor-dancer 's complete commitment to the whole and complete loyalty to Fokine 's design make him dominate the action . |
| 26 | ‘ I imagine you employed him , ’ she rebuked him tightly , ‘ because he happens to be a first-class mechanic . ’ |
| 27 | Well he happens to be an old flame of Mummy 's . |
| 28 | The romantic is attracted to Jesus because he seemed to be a great charmer who attracted others . |
| 29 | Blazons of heraldry tattooed the whole surface of his skin — he seemed to be a living shield armoured in righteousness . |
| 30 | Even as a poisoner , not , you would have thought , the most demanding of professions , he seemed to be a complete failure . |