Example sentences of "he be [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had trod a very narrow path , fraught with danger ; had he been wrong on any detail , it would have spelt disaster . |
| 2 | Our ordinary sense of language suggests that it is not possible for a person to use words or conduct ‘ towards another person ’ if he is unaware of that person 's existence . |
| 3 | Besides — he is one of several players i have to compete with and i take that as a challenge . |
| 4 | He is one of several Newcastle players who have been told by manager Kevin Keegan they can go . |
| 5 | ‘ He is one of those players you want in your side because you know he will be superb week-in , week-out . |
| 6 | He is one of those players that when he gets the ball can turn it on and do something magic . |
| 7 | He is one of those characters whose personality is somehow several sizes too large . |
| 8 | He is one of those individuals who has put even more back into the sport than he has taken out of it . |
| 9 | He is married to another Birmingham alumnus — Susan Peters , who graduated in 1965 . |
| 10 | Unaccountably , he is absent from this exhibition . |
| 11 | Knighton declined to comment ahead of the talks with Edwards , but it seems he is keen at all costs to avoid a court case . |
| 12 | They apply in cases of ( a ) inadvertence , ( b ) misadventure and ( c ) death , and empower licences to be granted to the parties in possession of the premises and objections to be considered whereby an objector himself or his representatives if he is deceased in such cases at an adjourned meeting . |
| 13 | In this way he can re-experience the feeling of succeeding and may accept that he is capable of that feeling and of having achieved something by his own efforts . |
| 14 | If his materials and workmanship were of their normal high standard , he is entitled to some explanation for this unexpected outcome . |
| 15 | Confessing that he is ambitious for more power , but unlikely to get it , Mr Clark , who once described Africa as ‘ bongo-bongo land ’ , says : ‘ I 'm not interested in the rest . |
| 16 | And one of the , the things that Jesus is bringing up particularly in this first se parable here , the parable of the lost sheep , is that he is concerned for that individual , for that one person . |
| 17 | He is independent of all authority except that of his own choosing . |
| 18 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 19 | In qualifying ‘ scientific ’ by ‘ in a broad sense ’ Kemp shows that he is aware of this problem . |
| 20 | We must be satisfied that the insured person is legally liable and not just morally liable , i.e. he may feel he is responsible for some damage but unless he has been negligent then no liability exists . |
| 21 | There 's this man right and he 's married to this woman called Lorraine , but because he had , meanwhile he was married to a woman called Lorraine and he had |
| 22 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 23 | He 's one of those players who never hide . |
| 24 | I hope he 's one of those blokes that 'll kick her from dog to devil . ’ |
| 25 | If you ask me , he 's one of those chaps whose marriage was so close and idyllic that he 'll never get over his wife 's death : he 's just passing the time as usefully as he can . |
| 26 | It could have been vicars and tarts , of course , but I reckon he 's one of those transvestites that hang out up there . |
| 27 | Victor : he 's one of those guys you used to see in spunky films about British Tommies — sit him on an ammo box in the back of a rolling three-tonner and he 's asleep in a twinkling . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's one of those wimps who ca n't muddle along without a woman and he 's gone off the duck so he 's come back here . ’ |
| 29 | He 's one of these blokes where he comes number 1 , 2 and 3 , and anyone else comes nowhere . ’ |
| 30 | oh I tell ya , I got there , I buy a couple , Sally buys 'em because I , I give 'em tapes , I do n't ask him , but he 's one of these blokes unless he buys you one he 'll take a funny |