Example sentences of "had [adv] be [adv] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 2 | She had not been far behind him , and yet had heard no sound to prepare her for this . |
| 3 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 4 | But it had n't been up to him . |
| 5 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 6 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |