Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time the reader is reminded that he is reading , confronted with his own reactions , reminded to keep his distance , forced into sceptical attitudes by an author determined that nothing shall appear easy or comfortable . |
| 2 | I thought , ‘ He is peculiar , he 's forgotten that he 's paying me £30 a year to obey his orders , ’ and I said , ‘ Not many masters bother to ask if their servants are offended by their orders . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 4 | He had forgotten that he was watching an exhibition . |
| 5 | Hsu 's monograph suffers from the converse limitation ; the author expressly claimed that he was studying members of his own society but , by the ordinary criteria used by social anthropologists , he was not doing an ) " thing of the sort . |
| 6 | For instance , before the war , it was reported that he was heard to say over the telephone , in reply to an invitation from a leading London hostess , ‘ I should especially like to come , as I have not been to Hampstead since 1916 ’ . |
| 7 | In the end I went to the police and found that she 'd just reported that he was missing . ’ |
| 8 | His progress was such that by 1783 he had so excelled that he was asked to teach the subject . |
| 9 | He had considered that he was having a heart attack ; that would explain the pains in his side and the hot and cold sweats tormenting him . |
| 10 | LOS ANGELES ( UPI ) — The jury which convicted a confessed devil-worshipper , Richard Ramirez , of 13 ‘ Night Stalker ’ murders has recommended that he be executed . |
| 11 | While this may seem a consolidation of his European realm and role , Charles could not have foreseen that he was to strengthen the future power of the papacy far more than that of his own lineage . |
| 12 | Nutmeg suddenly realised that he was looking at himself ! |
| 13 | This is a convoluted way of achieving a just result , and the law should be that the defendant should be proved to have realised that he was dealing with a policeman , or was reckless about the matter . |
| 14 | Jesus ' audience , however , would not have recognised the ‘ son ’ as Jesus because they would not have realised that he was going to die . |
| 15 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 16 | Yet , Levine , who died in July 1987 , aged 81 , could not have realised that he was making one of the best investments of his life . |
| 17 | She stopped again then said wryly , ‘ When I saw you and gradually realised that he was attracted to you I naturally became jealous . ’ |
| 18 | He had explained that he was going to see Eloise , in the hope she might be willing to sell him something . |
| 19 | The 62-year-old bishop later explained that he was quoting from a book called How To Be A Wally . |
| 20 | Then probably you have not heard that he was sent for last night just before Compline , to go to Donata , at her express wish . |
| 21 | I have heard that he was saddened by these writings of Fernanda Eberstadt 's , in which his own writings are faulted . |
| 22 | Technically he is excellent but you have noticed that he is falling down on the supervisory aspects of his job . |
| 23 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 24 | Had no one in the hospital tried to stop him leaving or even noticed that he was missing ? |
| 25 | I had n't noticed that he was carrying , not wearing , it and I certainly had n't seen him take the meat . |
| 26 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 27 | Billy Sullivan had decided that he was going to own his own gymnasium one day and the idea grew in his mind until it became an obsession . |
| 28 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 29 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 30 | It was later generally accepted that he was suffering from multiple neurofibromatosis ( von Recklinghausen 's disease ) , a very rare and incurable disease characterized by the tendency to form neurofibromas ( tumours of the nerve and fibrous tissue ) . |