Example sentences of "he [vb mod] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E must be got warm . ’ |
| 2 | If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point . |
| 3 | Why do n't England give him another chance he may be getting old , but oh boy , he can still play . |
| 4 | He may be wearing psychedelic Bermudas , a toning but different psychedelic silk T-shirt , a straw panama , severely fashionable horn-rims , and unusually busy sneakers . |
| 5 | Secondly , the court may order him to forfeit his office if he is convicted for corruption under the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 , and if he is convicted a second time under that Act he may be adjudged incapable for ever of holding a public office . |
| 6 | He should be getting used to it by now , but instead he was almost ashamed of the place where he lived . |
| 7 | Charlie had just landed his 100th winner of the calendar year — the first jockey to do so — and the crowd were determined that he should be made aware quickly and with as much emphasis as possible , how they felt about him . |
| 8 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 9 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 10 | He should be comparing planned expenditure last year with planned expenditure this year . |
| 11 | He died in September 1659 and was buried in Westminster Abbey ; in his will he had requested that he should be buried near to Agarde 's monument there . |
| 12 | If the patient is safe sitting up , he should be left alone for privacy while he is passing urine or faeces , and he should have a bell to summon help , or perhaps a stick with which to knock on the wall or floor . |
| 13 | His target , when he should be considered fit and ready , was the European centre of SIS operations , a house in The Hague disguised as the ‘ Continental Trading Corporation ’ , where he was to join the staff of agents run by Major H. R. Stevens and his deputy , Captain S. Payne Best . |
| 14 | Louis joked that he must be getting old ‘ when ladies declare war against me ’ , but it proved an ill judged jest . |
| 15 | so he must be doing good work . |
| 16 | He must be running low . |
| 17 | I told him he must be going mad , imagining things like that , but he insisted . |
| 18 | Yet when this principle is realized in the literal terms of premonitions and mental telepathy , he baulks and feels that he must be going mad . |
| 19 | Is he going mad , he must be going mad . |
| 20 | HE THOUGHT HE must be going soft in the head . |
| 21 | , it 's only an hour he might an hour but after that he 'll be thinking bloody hell the pubs will be open |
| 22 | ‘ I expect he 'll be flaming mad when he knows that , wo n't he ? |
| 23 | ‘ Remember he 's stuck in the refridgeration unit and he 'll be frozen solid if we do n't get him out of there soon . ’ |
| 24 | He 'll be burned alive . ’ |
| 25 | No , he 'll be going berserk because he has , he has three pairs of |
| 26 | I understand he 'll be arriving early Sunday evening . |
| 27 | An ’ my guess is he 'll be layin' low fer a while , tryin' t'save his own hide . |
| 28 | But did , did you hear he might be made redundant ? |
| 29 | Cadfael took the key from the porter , who hovered with slightly anxious sympathy , and was relieved to see a delinquent for whom he might be held responsible returning docilely to his prison . |
| 30 | Oh , I know that he would never have touched anything in the least underhand , but he is a director of the company , and he might be held responsible for things that were done without his knowledge . |