Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills . |
| 2 | Pringle , who wore a green sweatshirt , was visibly scarred on the left of his mouth where he was hit by a bullet fired by a police marksman . |
| 3 | ‘ And in this case , ’ said Dr Barton , ‘ you struck a man with such force that he was killed . ’ |
| 4 | The prosecution 's case had turned primarily on the allegation that he was drunk when his ship ran aground . |
| 5 | Tell the President that you have read about Abd Al-Ru'uf 's allegation that he was tortured , and about his lawyer 's complaint . |
| 6 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 7 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |
| 8 | John Galt 's position with the Canada Company was undermined by jealous rivals and land speculators , who made allegations of irregularities in his accounts , with the result that he was recalled to London and dismissed . |
| 9 | In January 1988 Leeds crown court excluded statements by the accused with the result that he was acquitted of the murder of a police sergeant and the attempted murder of a constable . |
| 10 | Furthermore , we have the unimpeachable information of his pupil Posidonius that he was invited by Scipio to be his companion on the diplomatic journey to the East about 140 B.C. ( fr. 30 Jacoby ) . |
| 11 | Why should I wish the lad any worse harm than he 's let himself in for already ? ’ |
| 12 | So complete was his disguise that he was circumcised before the journey . |
| 13 | The fella 's name was a Corporal and he was killed in a train wreck at Ipswich while he was going on leave going to London . |
| 14 | It was Beatty 's first movie and he was sprung from nowhere into the superstar bracket . |
| 15 | Last night , a 55-year-old local man was charged with murder and he is expected to appear before Dyffryn Clwyd magistrates at Denbigh later today . |
| 16 | Montag 's wife reports him to the Brigade and he is forced to flee , making his way to a place outside the city described by Clarisse , where a group of people have gathered together to memorise books , keeping the words immortal . |
| 17 | His first was his refusal to devalue the pound until he was forced to do so ; had he devalued in mid 1991 as he should have done , the recession would have been over much sooner . |
| 18 | On 19 October 1550 he was granted letters of denization and he is listed thereafter in various City parishes , the last being St Bride 's in the ward of Faringdon Without , where he was described in 1571 as ‘ Haunce , pictorer , a denizen , borne in Anwarpe , came into the realm about xxviii yeres past , Douch ’ . |
| 19 | They did n't like his original mix of the current single Hey Music Lover and he was told to commercialise it . |
| 20 | Bullets ripped through the car and he was hit in the chest and leg . |
| 21 | Under a hire-purchase agreement the hirer undertakes to hire the goods for a specified period at a specified rent and he is given an option to buy the goods when he has paid all the specified rent . |
| 22 | ‘ He was in the Pathfinder Force and he was killed when he was 21 years old and buried in Germany . |
| 23 | Britain and France were at war and in 1794 , or thereabouts , when he was about 17 , William 's ship was captured by the enemy and he was imprisoned in France . |
| 24 | He regarded my attainment of ‘ full genitality ’ as the ultimate goal of his therapy and he was determined that I should enjoy a complete cure . |
| 25 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 26 | It was a degrading situation for Tom and would be a humiliation if he were passed over . |
| 27 | She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home . |
| 28 | And it will do his own prospects no harm if he is seen attempting to make up for his failure to sign Alan Shearer in the summer . |
| 29 | The Divisional Court , in holding that the magistrate erred in committing the applicant , also referred to the fact that Price had stated before the magistrate that he would not return to Sweden to give evidence at the trial of the applicant if he was extradited to Sweden . |
| 30 | Immediately , she sent for an ambulance and he was taken to the Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington , where he died soon afterwards . |