Example sentences of "he be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently 'e 's took over there fer good . |
| 2 | ‘ 'E was shot in the chest . |
| 3 | The attacks on him are born of jealousy and political snobbery . ’ |
| 4 | The attacks on him are born from jealousy and political snobbery . |
| 5 | The usual explanation of offshore bars is that given by Johnson ( 1919 ) and the stages of formation envisaged by him are shown in Fig. 8. 18 . |
| 6 | ‘ ( The European Parliament ) … considers that , in the absence of palliative care correctly provided at both psychological and medical level , each time a fully conscious patient insistently and repeatedly requests an end to an existence which has for him been robbed of all dignity , and each time a team of doctors created for that purpose , established the impossibility of providing further specific care , the request should be satisfied without thereby involving any breach of respect for human life . ’ |
| 7 | Garvey would never let him be seen by strangers before the atmosphere was right . |
| 8 | As long ago as Plato it was believed , ‘ if a person be guilty of impiety let him be punished with death . ’ |
| 9 | I says to him be prepared for a bill said I do n't mind paying for one , but |
| 10 | ( As in inscriptions , e.g. Syll. 1016 from fourth-century BC Iasos in Karia : ‘ let him be excluded from the sacred place ’ . ) |
| 11 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 12 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 13 | The journalists who had been hired by him were based in Manchester . |
| 14 | The men grouped together ahead of him were hunched against the drizzle . |
| 15 | Memorials to him were raised on Liddington Hill in 1938 and on Barbary Down in 1939 . |
| 16 | Men like him were born with charm , exuded sensuality as unthinkingly as they breathed in air . |
| 17 | Mr Lloyd is taking legal advice after charges of theft against him were dropped without reaching court . |
| 18 | Charges against him were dropped in May 1988 after a meeting between the Crown Prosecution Service and the force complaints department , because his alleged confession had been given to an officer , Det Sgt James McManus , who was already under investigation in another case . |
| 19 | It is not known how his interest in electricity developed , but in 1787 two papers by him were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . |
| 20 | He was overthrown by Col. Houari Boumedienne in a military coup of 1965 [ see pp. 20963-68 ] and kept under house arrest until 1980 , when all restrictions on him were lifted by President Chadli Bendjedid . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 22 | Lawrence Pearson was an outstanding man by any standards who gave prodigious service to the building industry , resulting in him being invested with the Order of the British Empire in 1976 . |
| 23 | They had only wanted to reduce the political power of Charles I and prevent him being manipulated by those who sought to return England to the Roman Catholicism . |
| 24 | Instead of the compensation payable to him being limited to £15,000 as the maximum amount of compensation payable to any one depositor , each of his five assignees could look to the fund for payment of £15,000 in respect of the £20,000 share of the deposit assigned to him . |
| 25 | Wearing a blue blazer , a white open-necked shirt and jeans , Newall listened intently as his lawyer battled to stop him being sent for trial in Britain . |
| 26 | Here we 've got him being spat at and condemned to death . |
| 27 | Him being worshipped as a god . |
| 28 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
| 29 | If the accused was not seen to take the property such evidence as him being seen near the scene of the crime or being found in possession of the property is useful . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've explained it to him and it 's not fair on him being exposed to some of our defending in recent weeks . ’ |