Example sentences of "[adj] he be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking to defence writers , he made clear he was against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation taking over responsibility for all peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia should a ceasefire and peace be agreed . |
| 2 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 3 | In January 690 he was in the second year of his reign , so his accession took place in 688 , no doubt in the immediate aftermath of Caedwalla 's abdication . |
| 4 | Otherwise , he 's been happy knocking over inferior opposition and now people wonder how serious he is about the whole thing . |
| 5 | In 1332 he shared Baliol 's triumph at the battle of Dupplin Moor and in 1333 he was in the victorious army which defeated the Scots at Halidon Hill and restored Baliol to his throne after a brief Scottish rebellion . |
| 6 | Boyle spoke yesterday of how delighted he was for the two athletes and the satisfaction their golden double gave him . |
| 7 | This point is proved by the officer or warden describing how visible he was to the driver , e.g. ‘ I was clearly visible to a driver approaching the crossroads etc … |
| 8 | While Iran was undergoing fundamental changes in the seventies he was on the outside , instead of authority at home . |
| 9 | AT 1.15 I call the AA to ask can I borrow a patrolman for the afternoon , and at 1.45 he 's at the door with sewn-in trouser creases and a shiny van , packed tight as an egg with tools and spares . |
| 10 | By 1252 he was at the height of his power and high in royal esteem . |
| 11 | ‘ There is a sick Jewish problem of voting for a black man no matter how unfit he is for the job , ’ he said . |
| 12 | In 1807 he was in the expedition that failed to take Buenos Aires and subsequently went with his battalion to India . |
| 13 | In January 1283 he was at the siege of the castle of Dolwyddelan , whose nodal position made its capture crucial to the English conquest of Snowdonia . |
| 14 | Yet it was John Lightfoot [ q.v. ] , the Christian Hebraist at Cambridge , who secured an academic position for Abendana , and from 1663 until 1667 he was on the payroll of Trinity College , Cambridge , working on his translation of the Mishnah . |
| 15 | That will depend on how good he is on the day . |
| 16 | To see how good he is to the people . |
| 17 | If you 're sure he 's in the Mimosa that is . ’ |
| 18 | Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body . |
| 19 | After all he 's in the yard . |
| 20 | We are going to a tribunal on Tuesday to buy a keeper with a lot of potential — but that 's all he is at the moment , a lot of potential . ’ |
| 21 | If he was home at all he was in the flat . |
| 22 | The ‘ Megatop Phoenix ’ era finds Mick wrestling with poor returns , but with the inception of BAD II he 's on the track once more , wearing daft hats and running with the oldest , coolest street gang in the business . |
| 23 | " Not without knowing how long he was in the water . " |
| 24 | In 1858–9 he was in the service of the Admiralty , before returning to south Wales , where for ten years he was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Sirhowy Tramroad , which he converted into a standard railway . |
| 25 | He was leaving behind the other children , the only friends he had , and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world . |
| 26 | By February 1469 he was in the company of his brother the king and took an active role in the trial for treason of Henry Courtenay and Thomas Hungerford . |
| 27 | By February 1469 he was in the company of his brother the king and took an active role in the trial for treason of Henry Courtenay and Thomas Hungerford . |
| 28 | In 1962 , he married American actress Susan and by 1966 he was on the up again playing a seedy abortionist in the hit movie Alfie . |
| 29 | By the time Fred was 16 he was on the books of Aldershot and had played in friendlies against the Army and Clapton Orient . |
| 30 | Blake says how pleased he is with the firm 's improved performance , acknowledging the considerable efforts and progress it has made . |