Example sentences of "and [vb past] he be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyway , a certain man appeared , and pretended he was in love with Miss Havisham . |
| 3 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But Taylor 's staff checked with Downing Street — and discovered he was in no position to offer anything . |
| 7 | Then he remembered something and knew he was in duty bound to take that risk . |
| 8 | A little fat guy came in and said he was for the card game in Room 42 . |
| 9 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 10 | At dawn on April 2nd Colonel Himler Rebu of the Leopard battalion ( which thinks of itself as Haiti 's finest ) arrested General Avril in the presidential palace , set his own men to patrol the streets and said he was in charge now . |
| 11 | Werewolf answered and said he was in the middle of cooking lunch as Sorrel was out . |
| 12 | This afternoon a man caliming to be Hanger called Grendon prison and said he was in Aylesbury and armed with a shotgun . |
| 13 | He recognized these things and hoped he was above them . |