Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he seemed to be standing very close to the bed . |
| 2 | Yeah , but you know he 's an old , I mean you know the guy he 's quite an old , old fart basically he likes to be looked after |
| 3 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
| 4 | Perhaps he wants to be left alone . ’ |
| 5 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 6 | From these reports , it seems that Huntingford at least was not satisfied that Vial was all he claimed to be . |
| 7 | Paul next door left school , you know , he cou all he wanted to be was a mechanic , it 's , it 's all he 's ever been , he 's really good . |
| 8 | John 's insights into her situation are astoundingly accurate … but is he all he seems to be ? |
| 9 | So he studied to be a doctor , and went out to India . |
| 10 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 11 | So he decides to be cautious and for the first few laps , he just sits and waits . |
| 12 | got to go to the hospital , he 's going to see a friend that 's had operation and er so he wants to be out at half past six so |
| 13 | That was first thing in the morning , at two o'clock he had to be brought home . |
| 14 | Thus he seems to be arguing from within a position which holds that aggression is an innate attribute of sufficient strength that it needs to be redirected in some way for it not to manifest itself in interhuman relations . |
| 15 | Soon he hopes to be at a new home in a different area , where he hopes to be able to live his life in peace . |
| 16 | True , he was quite relaxed and , as always , full of bonhomie , but somehow he seemed to be looking with far greater intensity towards the past than the present . |
| 17 | Nigger could only have arrived home that same day and already he seemed to be queering Yanto 's pitch . |
| 18 | So over-blessed a nature must bring a man either to a throne or a grave before ever he lived to be old . |
| 19 | Thereafter he continued to be an influential committee-man until he returned to Ireland as a parliamentary commissioner in June 1649 . |
| 20 | For once he seems to be at a loss for words . |
| 21 | ‘ Everything in life has to be paid for , and if a man does wrong he deserves to be punished , ’ she says . |
| 22 | Urgently he requested to be reinforced by at least two companies . |
| 23 | Now he hopes to be home by the weekend … and even working by Christmas . |
| 24 | His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety . |
| 25 | And now he began to be more devout than ever in his prayers , more ardent in divine contemplations , more frequent in his vigils , more energetic in exhortations and in works worthy of imitation and more frequent in preaching ; thus becoming a pattern in word and deed of a holy life to all , Rich in the bowels of compassion , he relieved everyone who sought his assistance . |
| 26 | Last night he had been suffering from jet lag ; now he seemed to be fully recovered , and power flowed from him in waves . |
| 27 | First the man insulted her , and now he seemed to be taking a perverse delight in taunting her . |
| 28 | Now he seemed to be implying that there was something immoral in how she earned her living . |
| 29 | Twenty-four hours ago she had been barely aware of his existence ; now he seemed to be taking over her life ! |
| 30 | Now he pretended to be waving his cape at the bull and executed a neat veronica , then she kicked her leg up backwards and touched her heel with her fingers while he looked scornfully on with one hand behind his back palm facing outwards . |