Example sentences of "he be [adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is delighted and yesterday said : ‘ This is extremely good news because it is imperative that the cathedral has the ability to maintain its justifiably high standard of music , and a new organ is badly needed as the existing one is now beyond repair . ’ |
| 2 | After all , he is competent and well liked , and we should try to retain him if possible . |
| 3 | He is widowed and now lives alone in a ground floor fiat in a warden controlled sheltered housing scheme . |
| 4 | He is frightened and even refuses to take his Moorish servant , Rastani , with him . |
| 5 | He 's flirtatious and often comes round without my daughter . |
| 6 | ‘ The River Rat ! ’ he boomed , laughing heartily at his own joke , ‘ never takes his hat off because he 's BALD and never puts his boat in the river because he CA N'T SAIL ! ’ |
| 7 | On his part , Corbett shrewdly watched the Frenchman and knew he was correct and so moved to close the trap . |
| 8 | He said he was sorry and normally obeyed all the driving rules , but this time failed to keep his eye on the speedometer as he made his way to Birmingham . |
| 9 | He was tall and stoutly built … his height just seven times the length of his own foot . |
| 10 | He was tall and stolidly built , giving an impression of shambling clumsiness until one saw him working in a confined space when he would seem physically to contract and become compact , even graceful , moving about the body with the lightness and precision of a cat . |
| 11 | His was undone to the waist , he had no cap , his slacks were dirty and crumpled , he was unshaven and badly needed a haircut , he wore plimsolls , loosely tied with bits of string . |
| 12 | It was easy to see that he was clever and well read , but he was also boring . |
| 13 | He knew that he was clever and always wanted to say his piece in meetings . |
| 14 | He was photophobic and always wore a pair of tinted glasses to protect his eyes . |
| 15 | He was tired and undoubtedly moved by the warmth of his welcome . |
| 16 | He had little sympathy with Eileen , although he was polite and briskly reassuring . |
| 17 | He was inexperienced and little known before he was propelled into the highest office by his friends ' ambition for him and by the deadlock between Long and Chamberlain in 1911 . |
| 18 | Hunting one day , Olybrius , the grand governor of Antioch , saw her and seeing her innocence and her loveliness he was jealous and immediately wanted to destroy both . |
| 19 | He was ill and below form in Australia , but has gone well in training here . |
| 20 | He was ill and below form in Australia , but has gone well in training here . |
| 21 | For seventeen , he was big and heavily built , but the man who carried him was so tall and held his weight so easily that there was no doubt who he was . |
| 22 | He was wrong and soon had to resign . |
| 23 | I tried to get Dad to tell me where they 'd gone but he was tipsy and only laughed and said they 'd gone on their ‘ funnymoon ’ . |
| 24 | Stiff and cold in personal relations , he was pompous and excessively attached to the trappings of power . |
| 25 | Those who talked to Harold Macmillan at this time were sure that this cold politicking did not enter his head ; that he was sincere and only wanted to do the best that he could for the Church . |
| 26 | However there was a long delay in sending out a rescue launch as the raid was still on , and he was dead when eventually picked up ; Waghorn was also killed . |
| 27 | He was thin and softly spoken and smoked an expensive cigar . |
| 28 | He was happy and well looked after in this home . |
| 29 | He was amused and oddly stirred by the Welshman 's enthusiasm , but he could n't help thinking that his triumph was likely to be short-lived . |