Example sentences of "it be [adj] of he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's typical of him to forget to tell me he 's entertaining . |
| 2 | And it 's foolish of him to have it when we 're all about to go into production and we 're so tired . ’ |
| 3 | It is typical of him to assert , as Judaism does roundly , that all work is honourable ; and deny that the reliance on special work and destiny ( ‘ God 's work ’ ) elevates a man per se . |
| 4 | It is all of him . |
| 5 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 6 | This trio was written early in 1845 , just over two years before his death at the age of 38 ; and it is characteristic of him in its formal subtlety within apparently classical outlines , and in its skilful reconciliation of baroque with romantic . |
| 7 | It is characteristic of him that he transmitted to us a document which gave the number of the soldiers in the Roman army about 225 B.C. and added the number of the men of military age but not under arms : the document distinguished between Roman citizens and allies , and gave specific figures for the main groups of allies ( 2.23–4 ) . |
| 8 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 9 | It is generous of him to give Daniele an out . |
| 10 | ‘ It was nice of him to give you that bracelet . |
| 11 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 12 | It was callous of him to embitter and spoil their parents ' lives . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it was unnecessary of him to say it — I 've spoken to an analyst about it and I 'll probably grow out of it , when I 'm bigger . |
| 14 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 15 | It was typical of him to see politics in ethical terms . |
| 16 | It was typical of him to choose this pub . |
| 17 | It was typical of him that , immediately following the accident , his concern was not for his own injuries but for his horse Mr Brooks . |
| 18 | It was typical of him that he ‘ allowed everybody to ride it ’ . |
| 19 | It was typical of him to find a place for Basil D'Oliveira in English cricket after the South African had written to him in desperation that his talent would ever find outlet . |
| 20 | It was typical of him . |
| 21 | It was really good to see him in London last month ; I think he was a bit mystified by the church we went to , but it was good of him to come with me ! |
| 22 | I know , I say that , and the , the only thing is I was upset over the Leah Manning , being taken off the ambulance you see and whether I will get back I 'm hoping I will because erm he said he will let me know before Christmas so I think he will , he came to Leah Manning to visit me any rights to see me about it , so it was good of him really |
| 23 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 24 | ‘ It was brave of him really . ’ |
| 25 | I thought it was lovely of him ! |
| 26 | It was characteristic of him that his last work , and his greatest apart from Justification and Reconciliation , was a three-volume History of Pietism ( 1880–6 ) , in which he applied his very considerable erudition to demonstrating that Pietism represented the improper infusion into German Protestantism of alien , Roman Catholic conceptions of the Christian life . |
| 27 | She said , ‘ Anyhow , it was kind of him to stay . ’ |
| 28 | It was kind of him . |
| 29 | And later , when she and Nick were alone , ‘ It was kind of him , really . |
| 30 | So it was kind of him to think you might feel like that , too . ’ |