Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] he be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he refers to Montagu as ‘ the Assyrian ’ and his Queen Anne 's Gate house as ‘ the silken tents of Shem ’ , he was not being jealous or even anti-semitic , but complacently and affectionately mocking of Montagu , of whom he was almost as fond as he was of Venetia . |
| 2 | Fond as he was of aquatints and textured design , colour rarely entered his commentary vocabulary . |
| 3 | Memet did not contradict her , for , fond as he was of her , he had no intention of marrying her . |
| 4 | Proud though he was of his wife , Charles could not help noticing she was stealing the limelight . |
| 5 | Entre la vie et la mort ( 1968 ) depicts the drama of a writer 's struggle with language and the processes of creation , aware as he is of the potentially enslaving power of words . |
| 6 | Appreciative though he was of Penny , ally though he felt her to be , there is between nineteen and twenty-three a great gulf fixed which prevented anything in the way of advances . |