Example sentences of "he be [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 2 | Do you reckon he 's with some young lady , enjoying an al fresco lunch ? ’ |
| 3 | He 's like some perfect uncle , authoritative and kind , but slightly removed . |
| 4 | How he walks up to me , he sort of looked at me yeah like , like he looked really went hello , give me a kiss then he 's like some old man |
| 5 | He was with some other gipsies . |
| 6 | Very widely read and a lover of drama and music , he was for some thirty years one of the most influential members of the famous Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 7 | ‘ Give me one good reason , ’ he demanded , somehow his voice reaching her as gruff and as if he was under some powerful emotion too . |
| 8 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 9 | Monks were supposed to enjoy Lectio : in the scriptures and in the writings of the fathers of the Church , the monk had an encounter with the divine and felt that he was in some mysterious sense studying God himself . |
| 10 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 11 | Struggling throughout his life with his own infirmity of will , and with a haunting sense that he was like some great tree possessing ‘ pith within the Trunk , not heart of Wood ’ , he was consistently drawn , for good and ill , to those possessing stronger personalities than his own . |
| 12 | He was like some vital cell in the bloodstream of the city ; tiny but important ; a message bearer , a point of growth and change . |