Example sentences of "[conj] he be very " in BNC.

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1 There was another error , much later , at the 12th where he was very lucky to see his tee shot somehow stay on the steep bank above Rae 's Creek .
2 Stuart is just like everybody else , except he is very short and a mouse .
3 My poor boyfriend was also completely ignored , although he was very understanding , and we are now in fact married !
4 To Alison Yarrington , writing about the ‘ sensuous ’ in fin-de-siecle sculpture , an examination of the human figures of Antonio Canova sheds light on more recent sculptural interpretations of the body although he was very much the product of the patriarchal system of the day .
5 He 's typical in that he 's very reserved .
6 And see that he 's very afraid ,
7 He says that he 's very disappointed .
8 The response is that he 's very upset and concerned about the women .
9 He says that he 's very popular with everyone .
10 A magician lives in the house everyone says that he 's very grumpy so if you meet the magician you must be very polite .
11 will be the respect and regard with which the populace hold their own Chiefs and Elders , and not him , combined with general good relations between the private individuals which compose the clan , and the general prosperity of the unit … where the policy of the government is to rule indirectly the political officer must be satisfied with the knowledge , locked securely in his breast , that he is very important to the native population although they are not aware of it .
12 ‘ They say that he is very tall and very thin , but no-one is really sure , ’ I said .
13 Falkowski shows that he is very much his own man as a conductor .
14 ‘ He later apologised , of course , but if you know him well , you know that he is very fair . ’
15 So the environmental health officer that is dealing with that said to me that he is very stretched at weekends .
16 ‘ He proved today that he is very fast but I can tell him that tomorrow is not going to be so easy , ’ said Fittipaldi , who clocked 101.472mph .
17 He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint .
18 The Liberal Ramsey thought that Churchill was totally wrong to put Britain back on the gold standard ; that he was illiberal over miners in the General Strike ; that he was very mistaken in resisting the advance of India to independence .
19 Having decided that he was very unlikely to shave for next sixteen or so days he wanted his beard to be at the past-scratch stage when he arrived .
20 I think he did say to me once that he was very disturbed at how much coke David was doing , and it got to the point where he did n't hide it in front of DeFries , whereas he did , for quite a while , at first .
21 I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first .
22 McLeish held on to his temper , reminding himself that he was very tired .
23 Its chocolate-scented steam rose to touch his nostrils , reminding him that he was very hungry .
24 He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star .
25 He emphasised the fact that , under the Single European Act , some majority voting had been introduced in order to ensure that the single market worked effectively , but that he was very critical of the case being proposed for further extensions of competence , for example in the social field .
26 I know you were only a junior minister , but one hears about things when one 's down the line , that he was very presidential , that he would n't let them talk much and was very stiff and frozen .
27 For some years now he had shared the sheep herding with his Uncle George : the latter had never been particularly strong and now it was obvious that he was very ill .
28 Lynn says , ‘ I know now that Stuart is vulnerable , that he was very depressed .
29 Sydney said that he was very pleased that someone should want to take the time , money and effort to operate a Great War aerodrome and expressed his thanks to Torquil , Vic and all that had made it possible …
30 I suddenly realised that he was very , very interested .
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