Example sentences of "he had be bear [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind the narrow life that he had been born into ; his tiny presence seemed to make all the suffering and pain his birth had caused worthwhile . |
| 2 | He saw the age into which he had been born as a civilisation in decline , and said so . |
| 3 | He had been born with a photographic memory and an unlimited store for knowledge , and the capacity to gather and keep information on any subject under the sun . |
| 4 | He had been born with a hare-lip , which had been corrected when he was a baby , but he was nervous . |
| 5 | He had been born with a curved spine and stood five feet . |
| 6 | When he was living in his body , he had it made over so many times that there was hardly any of what he had been born with left . |
| 7 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 8 | He despised the ease with which he could now engage in a life beyond the mightiest exertions of the man he had been born to be . |
| 9 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 10 | He had been born to money , power , and good looks ; with a combination like that at his command , why would he hesitate about anything ? |
| 11 | He had been born on Easter Day , surely the most hopeful date in all the year . |
| 12 | He had been born on a Junker estate at Schönhausen in Brandenburg in 1815 , and his family had moved to Kniephof in Pomerania soon afterwards . |
| 13 | He had been born on March 30th 1853 . |
| 14 | He had been born in May 1940 and he died in November of the same year . |
| 15 | He had been born in Tucupita and had grown up there in the region of Venezuela where the great Paraqua river met the Orinoco and flowed into the Delta of the Orinoco where the sea moved on to Trinidad . |
| 16 | Although he had been born in Wine Street , Bristol , his cloth-making ancestors had come from Wellington , and his grandfather had farmed in the remote Somerset hamlet of Rich 's Holford below the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills ; his eccentric uncle , John , was comfortably established in a ‘ most delightful villa ’ a mile from Taunton , and Bath had intermittently been Southey 's own home since childhood . |
| 17 | He had been born in 1829 , the year of Catholic Emancipation . |
| 18 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 19 | If he had been born in England he would have been put in care by now . |
| 20 | He had been born in Jamaica but came to England in the 1940s to work in the steel industry . |
| 21 | Jack was the eldest of the family and he had been born in a smaller house , but he did n't remember it . |
| 22 | He had been born in England , had never seen India , spoke English as his cradle tongue and had forgotten all the Hindi he had ever learned but he had all the immigrant 's protective reactions and all his self-consciousness . |
| 23 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 24 | He had been born in America of American parents . |
| 25 | He had been born in Coatbridge , Glasgow in 1962 and been inside periodically from the age of seventeen . |
| 26 | And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 . |
| 27 | He had been born in one of the hideous concrete blocks of flats erected after the Great Patriotic War . |
| 28 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |