Example sentences of "he be [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dat young Dickens , 'e were allus in an 'urry , were n't ‘ c , Bill ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Long as it 's not you 'e 's interested in , ’ Fred said shortly . |
| 3 | A person " connected " with a director is defined in s346 Companies Act 1985 and includes a body corporate in which the director and other persons connected with him are interested in at least one-fifth of the nominal value of the equity share capital or control more than one-fifth of the voting power of the company at any general meeting . |
| 4 | ‘ Let him be late in coming to the table . |
| 5 | Really , I had heard something about him being involved in some ‘ group ’ . |
| 6 | Between 10 and 7 BC , however , Quirinius was known to be on military service in the Syrian area , and so there is the possibility of him being involved in a previous census even though he was not the Governor at the time . |
| 7 | If you 're right about him being involved in nefarious activities in Paris , he 's not likely to turn up and expose you . |
| 8 | With Wilko 's track record on dealings with very skillful , supposedly temperamental players , can anyone honestly see him being interested in Gazza . |
| 9 | A court of the United States may order the issuance of a subpoena requiring the appearance as a witness before it , or before a person or body designated by it , of a national or resident of the United States who is in a foreign country , or requiring the production of a specified document or other thing by him , if the court finds that particular testimony or the production of the document or other thing by him is necessary in the interests of justice , and , in other than a criminal action or proceeding , if the court finds , in addition , that it is not possible to obtain his testimony in admissible form without his personal appearance or to obtain the production of the document or other thing in any other manner . |
| 10 | The meditator is simply bidden to remember Peter although the identification with him is implicit in the way the incident is juxtaposed to the injunctions to pray : Although the formal prayer structure in the long version operates more rigidly and systematically , it is punctuated by lengthy emotive meditations . |
| 11 | To take the title of the book from Lord Carbery 's residence and to dedicate it to him was tactless in the extreme , for Carbery , as a former Royalist , was forbidden to keep a chaplain or tutor . |
| 12 | Had he been unfeeling in handing back the bowler 's sweater less than gently ( but by no means callously ) after an over full of backchat by the bowler and his captain ? |
| 13 | Had he been involved in inflicting those ‘ severe losses ’ ? |
| 14 | The board assessed his compensation at a substantially lower figure than he would have been awarded by an industrial tribunal had he been able in law to appeal to such a tribunal . |
| 15 | Nor had he been idle in Salzburg : he had written two duos for violin and viola to help out his fellow-composer Michael Haydn , who was in the service of the archbishop . |
| 16 | The contract might state that the supplier will pay £150 per week if he delivers late , or that the buyer will pay interest at 0.75% above the current base bank rate , should he be late in making payment . |
| 17 | Damn the man — could n't he be predictable in anything ? |
| 18 | He was severely reprimanded for having spared the Dragoon against orders and told that never again would he be welcome in their ranks . |
| 19 | Will he be interested in growth and self-improvement ? |
| 20 | Would he be interested in a Government post ? |
| 21 | ‘ But why would he be interested in your movements ? ’ |
| 22 | Why should he be interested in me ? |
| 23 | Leith was sorry she 'd missed seeing him , but resumed work , realising that since she was only a very small cog in a big machine Mr Massingham would be too busy to make a second visit , or remember , should he be interested in numbers , that there was one member of staff he had n't met yet . |
| 24 | Would she have allowed him the use of it in any outside circumstance , anywhere that open sexual contact would be anything other than common and unremarkable , and was he being honest in trying to tap some dry spring of old feelings to further his own ends now ? |
| 25 | His face , shadowed under the heavy helm , was fragile as ivory ; and silence seemed to wrap him , as if he were deep in a dream . |
| 26 | She had spoken too seriously to him , as if he were involved in her staying or leaving . |
| 27 | Mr Evans-Lombe concluded by saying that , if he were wrong in holding that s 20(1) ( a ) permitted words to be added to a will , he would have held that the 1989 will should be struck down as failing to give true effect to Mrs Wordingham 's intentions . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought you and he were interested in the same things . ’ |
| 29 | An undue pressure of interest had come into his tone ( almost as if he were interested in the position himself ) , but Mrs Seymour-Strachey did not notice . |
| 30 | ( He is pivotal in other ways too , not least culturally , with Austrian roots and Slav and Mediterranean forebears . ) |