Example sentences of "he be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , when you and he are married , miss , as everybody expects . |
| 2 | If there is no stated requirement for a quorum , persuade the Chairman to start at the advertised time even if only you and he are present . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr. H. A. Allbutt might have ventilated his views without let or hindrance from professional authority had he been content to address them to medical men instead of the public . ’ |
| 4 | Had he been present at the gathering in the public bar of the Queen Anne pub near the Rotherhithe Tunnel he would have been worried even more . |
| 5 | When she had gone Scarlet thought how bored with their conversation Brian would have been had he been present , and then she thought that , with him around , they would n't have had that conversation and she would have been bored . |
| 6 | ‘ I think , ’ said Andrew Ray , ‘ he saw the kind of man he would like to have been had he been straight . |
| 7 | Had n't he been guilty too ? |
| 8 | Had he been alive he would doubtless have been delighted at the response of the leading conservative theatre critic to What the Butler Saw ( 1969 ) : ‘ Orton 's terrible obsession with perversion , which is regarded as having brought his life to an end and choked his very high talent , poisons the atmosphere of the play . |
| 9 | He had not appeared thrown , and neither in the slightest had he been wrong-footed . |
| 10 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Has he been good ? |
| 13 | No I , I must of been how long 's he been married ? |
| 14 | Has he been married before ? |
| 15 | Had he been cruel to Sybil Vane ? |
| 16 | Had he been involved in inflicting those ‘ severe losses ’ ? |
| 17 | Ai n't he been noisy ? |
| 18 | The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time . |
| 19 | Where the defendant claims that as a result of intoxication , he did not realise that his conduct was or might be regarded as threatening , abusive or insulting , the magistrates must make a determination as to what they considered that the defendant would have realised had he been sober , and the conclusion that he would have realised will be virtually inevitable . |
| 20 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 21 | Only by restoring his muscle spasm had he been able to conquer the impulse to commit suicide . |
| 22 | ‘ One wonders , had he been able to have a say , whether he would have wished to inflict this level of strain on those around him . |
| 23 | Had he been able to argue with Northumberland before the present arrived he would have refused it , for four reasons . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 26 | Gustave would have made me into a hermit had he been able : the hermit of Paris . |
| 27 | Had it been only Ben he had seen , or had he been able to look out , however briefly , on the world of the future ; her world ? |
| 28 | This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly . |
| 29 | Writing this in 1776 , he was pleased enough with what was happening ; had he been able to look back from 1815 he would have seen his optimism largely vindicated . |
| 30 | Numb with agony and humiliation , she got undressed like a ghost and went to bed , unable to let herself dwell too deeply on what had happened in case she found herself asking the inevitable question : if I hate Damian Flint , why has he been able to hurt me so deeply ? |