Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] he [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sammy by now had wormed his way up to the third rung where he was floundering and panting breathlessly . |
| 2 | On Tuesday nights Sidney Passmore must have sat where he was sitting and on Fridays , the undertaker . |
| 3 | I can not resist retelling one of the anecdotes : in 1963 , at a party to congratulate Cotton on an award he had just received , Lipscomb told Cotton that while he was delighted by the choice , it should not be supposed that he was on the ‘ cottonpickin' ’ committee . |
| 4 | If it was n't for the air of wary intelligence about him it might have been supposed that he was a barbarian from the Hubland wastes . |
| 5 | While justifying the need for Islamic reform , Sharif nevertheless stressed that he was not " a fundamentalist " impervious to " the requirements of modern times " . |
| 6 | All the time the reader is reminded that he is reading , confronted with his own reactions , reminded to keep his distance , forced into sceptical attitudes by an author determined that nothing shall appear easy or comfortable . |
| 7 | ‘ Hope we did n't wake you , ’ Hennessy said , and Schaffer was reminded that he was unshaven and unwashed . |
| 8 | Owen did not like being reminded that he was , so far as police work was concerned , an amateur . |
| 9 | I thought , ‘ He is peculiar , he 's forgotten that he 's paying me £30 a year to obey his orders , ’ and I said , ‘ Not many masters bother to ask if their servants are offended by their orders . ’ |
| 10 | For the moment at least , she had forgotten that he was a dwarf and the biggest disappointment of her life . |
| 11 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 12 | Is it true that he 'd forgotten that he was their father ? |
| 13 | He had forgotten that he was watching an exhibition . |
| 14 | He had not forgotten that he was a Jew , but had recognized the power of the gods of his masters and had acted in accordance with their orders . |
| 15 | She had forgotten that he was off duty until her vision cleared sufficiently for her to take in the fact that he was wearing a dark suit , the jacket unfastened to reveal a white shirt . |
| 16 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 17 | Hsu 's monograph suffers from the converse limitation ; the author expressly claimed that he was studying members of his own society but , by the ordinary criteria used by social anthropologists , he was not doing an ) " thing of the sort . |
| 18 | It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House . |
| 19 | It 's claimed that he was secretly paid commission for awarding work to three firms in Italy , Germany and Norway . |
| 20 | Now it becomes a little clearer why , in a young healthy child where ‘ disease ’ serves its function in its most simple and natural form , it has been observed that the child is more well after an acute ailment has resolved than he was before it started . |
| 21 | I should have added that he is an absurd , self-important figure with as much charm and sophistication as your average lavatory brush . |
| 22 | Tired , drawn and bruised that he was , even the hard-earned pint by his right hand was scarcely touched . |
| 23 | In the end I went to the police and found that she 'd just reported that he was missing . ’ |
| 24 | For instance , before the war , it was reported that he was heard to say over the telephone , in reply to an invitation from a leading London hostess , ‘ I should especially like to come , as I have not been to Hampstead since 1916 ’ . |
| 25 | I am glad to see that the Minister is fine and fit , because it was reported that he was ill . |
| 26 | Now the local press has reported that he was ‘ involved ’ with unnamed politicians on the coast , an interesting remark considering that the country is in the middle of two rounds of parliamentary election voting . |
| 27 | His progress was such that by 1783 he had so excelled that he was asked to teach the subject . |
| 28 | He had considered that he was having a heart attack ; that would explain the pains in his side and the hot and cold sweats tormenting him . |
| 29 | His voice was educated although he was wiping his nose on his sleeve . |
| 30 | The runner , who has always protested that he is innocent , insists that the only reason he did not provide a sample at the 1991 GRE Cup meeting was that he did not have time before he had to go to work . |