Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 2 | In his " titanic struggle with the Shipping Federation , Wilson was utterly reckless in his statements , with the result that writs for libel were showered upon him and often we helped him escape being served with those most unpleasing documents by giving him a " leg up " over the backyard wall " . |
| 3 | He examined Sir Thomas 's corpse , pronounced him to have been poisoned , and claimed the potion was placed in a half-drunk cup of wine beside Sir Thomas 's bed . |
| 4 | His letters to his daughter Amanda , accompanied by her explanatory editorial notes , reveal him to have been something of a tender tyrant in his dealings with his three children , and much happier in the country watching birds than in London coping with editors and producers . |
| 5 | Even after his arrest opinion surveys suggested that Barry retained considerable support and that many of his constituents believed him to have been the victim of a vindictive campaign of persecution by the federal authorities . |
| 6 | But there had been no spirit in him , the shock of what his father told him had been too great . |
| 7 | , John ( fl. 1415–1450 ) , composer , has left us about twenty compositions whose style proclaims him to have been a slightly younger contemporary of John Dunstable [ q.v. ] , perhaps a close disciple . |
| 8 | Any number of factors may turn up that show him to have been mistaken . |
| 9 | Photographs of that time show him to have been clean shaven and crisply dressed . |
| 10 | He styled himself ‘ gentleman ’ and his publications show him to have been something of a virtuoso , interested in the state of agriculture , industry , and the national economy . |
| 11 | His source for this information is not given , but he does mention the existence of documents signed by a man of this name which show him to have been kadi of Cirmen and of Edirne . |
| 12 | Although she had come to dislike Dr McNab , believing him to have been indirectly responsible for her father 's death , she remained constantly at his side , helping him to care for the sick and wounded . |
| 13 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 14 | Patrick had been company , tending him had been a solace , hoping for him had been a hope . |
| 15 | Unable to admit that meeting him had been the catalyst , Luce said , ‘ I realised we were totally unsuited . |
| 16 | The first time this American woman had fellated him had been perfection . |
| 17 | Disappointment that Feargal was n't the man she had thought him had been replaced by a sadness for things not to be . |
| 18 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 19 | It was Nicholas junior who had shared his night watches ; his work on the Harmonies shows him to have been a prodigy . |
| 20 | His long career in France which led him to hold high military and administrative posts , as well as amassing a fortune through the capture of prisoners in battle , the seizing of property and the exploitation of estates , shows him to have been a ‘ realistic ’ person in all that he did . |
| 21 | His will , proved in December of that year , shows him to have been in easy circumstances . |
| 22 | His will , executed on 12 December 1760 , shows him to have been a man of substance . |
| 23 | All along the terrace , on the low wall that bounded it , stood the statuary his father had once told him had been placed there by whoever inhabited the place before Hilbert and Lilian came . |
| 24 | Yeah , whe whe whether or not we consider him to have been a black sheep , then we certainly have erm , rather gone into his character . |
| 25 | On subsequent visits to Spain Minton did reveal enough knowledge of Spanish to engage locals in conversations in bars , but in 1949 the only Spanish Bernard heard him say was ‘ No , melón ! ’ to a waiter . |
| 26 | The only living composer I heard him praise was Stravinsky ; the others who met his approval were all dead . |
| 27 | Modest in the sense that he never proclaimed his talents — and they were real and varied : he was , I have heard , a very good businessman , and I know him to have been a first rate chess player and a notable painter . ’ |
| 28 | Getting him to eat was no problem , but preventing him throwing his food around or trampling it into the floor was . |
| 29 | The form in which they had found him lying was but one of many places which he used . |
| 30 | I would judge him to have been about thirty-seven or eight . |