Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] he be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems later to have returned ; possibly an attempt on the throne was being planned when he died , for the C text 's statement that Cnut afterwards had him killed is followed by Florence , who adds that he was betrayed by those he held dearest . |
| 2 | He writes that he was determined to exclude ‘ voyages , naval battles , shipboard life , fishing ’ and most of what one expects in nautical yarns . |
| 3 | The difference is the eyes : this Christ looks like he is pursued by demons . |
| 4 | Looks like he 's padded his leopardskin jockstrap too . |
| 5 | ‘ Looks like he 's run for it , ’ Buckmaster interjected . |
| 6 | Quote ‘ It looks like he 's won a dog show . ’ |
| 7 | We turn left at the foot and come panting onto a platform where there 's only one old man sitting in his grandfather 's overcoat and he looks like he 's settled for the night . |
| 8 | Darius is struggling to finish his , and he 's smearing it round the bowl so it looks like he 's ate it , and I say I ca n't eat any more because I got to stay sober tonight . |
| 9 | it looks like he 's learnt from the Arse match where he was hauled back for 5 yards by Campbell before they scored their 2nd . |
| 10 | ‘ The American killed last week in Athens , Agency man , looks like he was shot by a Brit . ’ |
| 11 | To this day he thinks that he was accepted into the Royal College chiefly because Minton felt strong sympathy with the macabre apparition he presented . |
| 12 | If he wins that he 's set to meet Newcastle 's newly-crowned British champion Davison in the Spring with both titles at stake . |
| 13 | The story goes that he 's fallen out with his friends in the Provos , and he 's either on the run , or they murdered him and dumped the body . |
| 14 | He says that he 's fed up of going round in circles — how can he make a fresh start when he ca n't get a grant for clothing , and so ca n't then tunr up for job interviews ? |
| 15 | He says that he 's heard the shipping companyw ant to re-export the dog , but it would be a brave man who risked trying move the animal in it 's present condition . |
| 16 | ‘ But I 've been reading an interview in Groundswell where Johnny Boy says that he 's misunderstood and really he 's got a heart of gold . ’ |
| 17 | He says that he 's joined a few agencies , with no luck . |
| 18 | He says that he 's advised the farm owner that conditions are n't up to scratch , he says he 'll return to check that things have been put right . |
| 19 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 20 | Ecgfrith , his successor , is given a reign of fifteen years in the Northumbrian regnal list , but Bede says that he was killed on 20 May 685 in his fifteenth year ( HE IV , 24 ) , and that Ecgfrith was indeed in his fifteenth year in 685 is confirmed by the inscription at Jarrow which records the dedication of the church on 23 April ( which fell on a Sunday in 685 ) , a month before his death , in his fifteenth year . |
| 21 | The Encomiast has him beheaded by Earl Eric personally , while Florence says that he was killed in London at Christmas 1017 and that Cnut ordered the corpse to be left unburied . |
| 22 | John goes further and not only calls Judas a thief but also says that he was chosen by God to perform this evil deed . |
| 23 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 24 | For someone who is never less than outspoken — he even insulted the Irish last week and says if he was subjected to a Will Carling team talk he 'd fall asleep — Campese can be genuinely modest about his achievements . |
| 25 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 26 | It shows that he was owed around £5,000 by about two hundred individuals . |
| 27 | I 've heard , unofficially , ’ Brompton-Smiley was proud of his network of contacts and could never resist reminding his employer of them , ‘ very unofficially , that the postmortem shows that he was got at . ’ |
| 28 | His death certificate shows that he was found on the floor of his cow house on Christmas Eve 1887 , a day before his 71st birthday , having died from a heart attack . |
| 29 | The Profitboss succeeds because he is determined to turn failure into success . |
| 30 | I will begin with the first line of argument , which asserts that the investigation of a suspect ends when he is charged . |