Example sentences of "him be [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Why should they let him be killed ? |
| 2 | Garvey would never let him be seen by strangers before the atmosphere was right . |
| 3 | Too late , those who should have been Frederick 's allies realised their mistake in letting him be crushed . |
| 4 | As long ago as Plato it was believed , ‘ if a person be guilty of impiety let him be punished with death . ’ |
| 5 | I says to him be prepared for a bill said I do n't mind paying for one , but |
| 6 | ( As in inscriptions , e.g. Syll. 1016 from fourth-century BC Iasos in Karia : ‘ let him be excluded from the sacred place ’ . ) |
| 7 | Thus in ( 140 ) below the lighting of a fire is presented as a condition which would have permitted Pops to be found sooner , but the fire could not be conceived as acting on Pops directly itself and " making him be found " : ( 140 ) A fire would n't have mattered except that it would cause Pops to be found sooner . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |