Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [subord] he be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the message that a Mr Randolph Fields had telephoned to see if he was interested in buying one only mildly excited his curiosity . |
| 2 | Pressed to state whether he was satisfied that nothing illegitimate had been taking place , Stewart was evasive . |
| 3 | Neighbours , who reported the man as missing to the local council , say more should have been done to see if he was in need of help . |
| 4 | Craig Lipton definitely decided to resign before he was lynched . |
| 5 | We have offered to help if he is brought here . |
| 6 | He was less concerned with the fate of the customs official in Uruguay whose spine he had had to snap than he was with the course of the ancient empire on its long , slow descent into barbarism . |
| 7 | One or two had tried to see if he was interested in other things , but he was n't . |
| 8 | She had meant to wait until he was asleep before slipping out to phone Dana , but the long , nerve-racking day had caught up with her . |
| 9 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 10 | Those assembled were unanimous that the King could not be allowed to proceed as he was doing . |
| 11 | He was forced to train until he was physically sick . |
| 12 | He considered , as he read , that no one would know that his penis had begun to lift when he was half way through the writing of the paragraph . |
| 13 | Speaking on state radio , Mr Vauzelle said Mr Mitterrand was ‘ determined to stay because he is a man of duty . |
| 14 | While members must make the major policy decisions , Bains recognised that officers contribute to the stimulation and formulation of policy : ‘ … the skilled professional officer is not just a servant who is paid to do as he is told ’ ( Bains 1972:8 ) . |
| 15 | When he applied to the court for permission to marry , as he was required to do since he was under twenty-one and did not have a recognised guardian , the magistrate at Bow Street refused ‘ as he was not in favour of a British girl marrying an alien ’ . |