Example sentences of "he be [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 62 | Seems he was involved in some sort of scandal three or four years ago . |
| 63 | But he was right about that episode after the accident when Suzanna and Raich got together . |
| 64 | He was right at that time because he was , shall we say , " in season " , an exceptional pilot . |
| 65 | He hoped that he was right in this belief . |
| 66 | He was used to such priorities . |
| 67 | He was used to such things , and he had been able to pass the time by fulfilling an old ambition , to read Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the original English . |
| 68 | Alexai fitted in well enough in military surroundings , and it was apparent that he was used to that kind of ceremonial which was commonplace in the capital . |
| 69 | He was used to this sort of thing , he drives a big motorbike . |
| 70 | Although there were some police flats 200 yards away , he was unaware of any person or premises representing a likely IRA target . |
| 71 | Border said he was unaware of any reports but believed the umpires would be ‘ over-reacting ’ if any were made . |
| 72 | He was married by that time and erm living down at but I do n't think it , it would be fairly near there . |
| 73 | He was pleased with this phrase of the Captain 's and was evidently storing it up for his National Service boys . |
| 74 | He was pleased with this image and momentarily considered making a poem out of it . |
| 75 | Probably he was unused to such directness from lowly individuals such as herself — individuals incapable of producing at short notice trifling sums like three and a half thousand pounds ! |
| 76 | Although C. has no recollection of the fact , Ward J. found that he was present at some time when Miss T. was expressing her wish not to have a blood transfusion . |
| 77 | Yeats recalls receiving a letter from Lionel Johnson ‘ denouncing Wilde with great bitterness ’ ; Johnson believed that Wilde got a ‘ ‘ sense of triumph and power , at every dinner-table he dominated , from the knowledge that he was guilty of that sin which , more than any other possible to man , would turn all those people against him if they but knew'' ’ ( Yeats , Autobiographies , 285 ) . |
| 78 | He was guilty of this offence when he used the car for his own purposes the following day . |
| 79 | In the face of royal financial demands he had to bear in mind the interests of the clergy as well as his duty to the king , and he was subject to some pressure from the Pope to urge the king to pay heed to papal diplomatic overtures aimed at bringing an end to the war . |
| 80 | Hamza did not belong to this world , he was subject to another King . |
| 81 | He was young by any measure , and Alexei knew that he should not feel concern . |
| 82 | Although he was opposed to any plan to assassinate Hitler , he had been involved with the German resistance movement for some years , treading a dangerous path that was eventually to lead to his downfall and death . |
| 83 | In public , therefore , Edward gave the impression that he was opposed to any plans to invade Scotland . |
| 84 | Mr Tapie had wanted to charge Ffr2.08 billion ( £26 million ) for his share of the sporting goods group , and according to Les Echos , he was successful on that count . |
| 85 | He was successful in all branches of the sport , including trials , scrambling and even ice-racing . |
| 86 | So long as he was successful in that action too , a further thirty days later he was authorized to proceed to execution . |
| 87 | Doyle grinned , almost as if he was proud of that achievement . |
| 88 | He was proud of that house , a sprawling ranch in Taos . |
| 89 | But Mister Johnny just laughed ; he was bored with this game . |
| 90 | Adam might have escaped the file memories for years , suppressed them and jerked violently away from them , but he had never been able to pretend he was unscathed by those events . |