Example sentences of "[that] he be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He started to shout and scream , demanding that he be served with wine .
2 In August 1948 , Gaitskell specifically asked that he be transferred to the Ministry of Fuel and Power to coordinate the power station construction programme .
3 In a separate development on Jan. 27 , nearly 1,000 students attempted to storm the villa where Ershad was being detained , demanding that he be transferred to prison within 24 hours .
4 When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead .
5 Anna was murdered by a man who was out on bail accused of rape , even though the police had asked that he be kept in custody .
6 Undeterred , the opposition demanded that he be questioned at the hospital .
7 It is part of Berger 's purpose that he be seen as a village artisan .
8 But the King could not be asked to the dinner because protocol would demand that he be seated above Carter .
9 In his own interest , an outgoing partner should take steps to regularise the position by requiring that he be replaced as lessee and insisting on an indemnity against future liabilities of the firm generally ; and the partnership agreement ( Clause 25 ) should give him those rights .
10 Hodge recognised that his position had become untenable and wrote to MacArthur proposing that he be replaced within six to eight weeks .
11 It was even acceptable to chant or recite a verse or two in public if the young mirza had ‘ beauty and a good voice ’ ; but he should not do so too often or at length for fear — heaven forbid — that he be mistaken for a professional poet or singer .
12 The individual is never informed of what it is he ( sic ) is alleged to have done to give rise to the suspicion ; nor , indeed , is it necessary that he be convicted of any offence .
13 On seeing them escape , Shovel requested that he be shot with his own pistol , rather than return in disgrace .
14 Johnny , but he 's since insisted that he be addressed as John . ’
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