Example sentences of "he be [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On reflection he was sure that it had been his own personal brush with the Sabbah organisation two years earlier that had caused him to overreact . |
| 2 | By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest . |
| 3 | But he was pleased because it showed she intended taking seriously the duties of a rector 's wife . |
| 4 | The college 's principal , Professor Norman Gower , said he was sad that it had to sell but added : ‘ The cost of preserving Thomas Holloway 's main benefaction left us with no alternative . |
| 5 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 6 | In a cumbersome way it seems to have done this fairly effectively , for it was difficult for an official to embezzle royal money without being exposed in the long run , although the run was often so long that he was dead before it finished . |
| 7 | But if Mansell was unhappy with life in general before the race had started , he was furious after it had ended . |
| 8 | His wife came in and banged the door and he was furious because it made the china rattle ; he said she just did n't understand . ’ |
| 9 | She was talking to him as if he was grown-up and it made him feel uncomfortable . |
| 10 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 11 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |