Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been accused of being an agent of the CIA , and Ethiopian security gave him 48 hours to leave the country in August 1978 , but no one has found any evidence to confirm these rumours , ‘ I think it 's very unlikely that Ethiopian security would expel somebody on the basis of baseless rumours , ’ White says . |
| 2 | It followed that no individual should boast of his role ‘ but be thankful that he has been permitted to be useful ’ . |
| 3 | Now he has been talking of being ‘ more in control ’ . |
| 4 | Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative . |
| 5 | He 's always had an anti-Leeds stance so whatever he says is going to be biased . |
| 6 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 7 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 8 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 9 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 10 | With the help of defiant stances and some actual fighting , Jock establishes himself in public reputation as the kind of tough lad he enjoys being taken to be . |
| 11 | Latterly , he had been criticized for being more concerned about " restoring dignity to politics " and strengthening Slovenia 's Catholic and conservative traditions than about solving the economic problems resulting from communist rule and independence . |
| 12 | He despised the ease with which he could now engage in a life beyond the mightiest exertions of the man he had been born to be . |
| 13 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 14 | He said the whip which Mr Jones claimed he had been beaten with was not bought until after Mr Jones had left the Roberts 's . |
| 15 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
| 16 | On Oct. 22 , 1990 , he had been ordered to be detained for 60 days in a military camp for sending a letter to Menem warning him that unrest in the army could provoke a " military rebellion " . |
| 17 | Even without his well , he proved the reliable crowd-puller and money-spinner he had been bought to be , although neither records nor general report substantiate the enormous revenues and popularity sometimes claimed for him . |
| 18 | He had been told to be exact . |
| 19 | He had been expected to be out of the game for at least two months after suffering concussion and a broken eye socket from a punch , but has made a remarkable recovery . |
| 20 | He was determined to be accessible during the campaign : in the past he had been accused of being too aloof . |
| 21 | He had been accused of being a Communist he said , simply because he had expressed democratic and nationalist sentiments in his book , ‘ The Negro in the Caribbean ’ . |
| 22 | If the statement he makes is found to be true it will not be defamatory ( see Justification below ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Seems he 's been chosen to be the voice of Interplanetary Parliament here on Earth . |