Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb mod] be of " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Good luck , ’ he murmured , and then suggested that he might be of further help to her .
2 And as a matter of fact , as a matter of fact , the Germans th th th had thought that he would be of value to them at a later stage , because he was er he was shipped to Germany , and er er I understand that he died in Germany er at the latter end of er of of er of the of the war , the Second World War .
3 He visited the horrible flat every day to see if he could be of use .
4 He had found milk at the ā gri 's house and the old man had come back with him to see if he could be of any use .
5 It was March 1917 , and the young officer-to-be immediately went north to Petrograd ( now St Petersburg ) to see if he could be of help to the royal family .
6 He was as sure as he could be of anything that Taheb was an ally to cultivate .
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