Example sentences of "[vb past] he be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 2 | He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyway , a certain man appeared , and pretended he was in love with Miss Havisham . |
| 4 | It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold . |
| 5 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 6 | The Select Committee on Members ' Interests found he was in ‘ clear breach of the terms and the spirit ’ of the rules on declaration of interests for failing to tell other committee members of his links with a company making flight simulators . |
| 7 | We found he was in good shape , but had no food in his intestines . |
| 8 | George Burley 's door , two along from mine , was wide open , and I found he was in residence , dressed but asleep , quietly snoring in his armchair . |
| 9 | I believed he was in safe hands . |
| 10 | Yet Diana truly believed he was in love with her because of the devoted way he behaved in her presence . |
| 11 | He was aware that she believed he was in need of art . |
| 12 | Canon Law was most strict on this : a priest was bound to hear the confession of any man who believed he was in danger of death . |
| 13 | Sean was intent on not coming back as he believed he was in the right , but he did feel very upset . |
| 14 | ‘ It 'd be a very odd individual who , when telephoned by his girlfriend and advised he was to be a father , failed to follow up on it , ’ Vitor growled , starting to walk again . |
| 15 | She estimated he was in his early thirties . |
| 16 | He stayed on , though it seemed he was on the point of departure , for moments together , stuck to his own indecisiveness like an insect on the tacky strips of paper designed to catch them . |
| 17 | For a moment he imagined he was in another world , a simple uncomplicated world : a world where there was no place down below in the valley where men were being prepared for war ; that there was no place in Northumberland where a woman sat in a room all day with only her thoughts for company ; that there was no one called Carrie Smith ; that the world had dwindled and there was only this secluded garden and a secluded house , as had been said , with the hills to the back of it and the river at its feet and two women so unalike , yet alike : so understanding , so thoughtful of each other , and not only of each other , but of him . |
| 18 | There is not a suggestion that one of these missiles were returned ; there is not one suggestion which can be made by anybody , no matter how evilly disposed he is to the organizer of the procession or to the purpose of the procession , that any violence was offered by a member of that procession . |
| 19 | And however well endowed he was with these qualities , he might still have difficulty on some points . |
| 20 | When morning came he was in pain and not best pleased . |
| 21 | And er god you should of heard him , god if it ai n't Ross all over again , mummy , mummy and she left him there , as I said when they first came he was in the far bedroom , well now I suppose with all these people she 's rearranged it indoors and he 's in the one next to our house , and she 's shouting at him and er it went on how , I ca n't tell you how long , I mean , Bev and I was talking through bedrooms you know |
| 22 | I did — with admiration , though I never assumed he was to be taken without criticism . |
| 23 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 24 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 25 | Police confirmed he was under arrest . |
| 26 | Det Sgt Hardy Jones of Darlington CID confirmed he was in contact with officers from other forces to discuss the raids . |
| 27 | Saul of Tarsus after his Damascus road experience spent three days in fasting and prayer ; that showed he was in the receptive mood which invited the Spirit to come . |
| 28 | Allchin began by admitting that Microsoft has had a problem communicating its approach to object technology and claimed he was on the panel to put the record straight : there are objects in Windows NT because there is an object management system in the kernel — its simply not exposed to users . |
| 29 | He claimed he was in the UK for a conference . |
| 30 | IPSWICH Town footballer Eddie Youds , who was caught driving at almost 100 miles an hour , claimed he was in a rush to see his pregnant girlfriend , a court heard yesterday . |