Example sentences of "that it be [adj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does Astrophil , who is the ostensible author , mean he loves truth or that it is true he is in love ? |
| 2 | But he may have also been told by Mr Major that it is unlikely he would be promoted much further , and has decided to seek his fortune elsewhere . |
| 3 | But the vicar at today 's service agreed with Marc 's family that it was inconceivable he would take his own life . |
| 4 | Even in his ignorance , Lucien saw at once that it was essential he make a favourable impression upon this man . |
| 5 | Nails had to admit that it was true he slept in his clothes every night ; he had bits of straw all over him and probably smelled a bit . |
| 6 | On one visit to Chapman in Norfolk , he told me that it was true he always worked ‘ to the most minimal margins ’ and that he ‘ subordinated everything to creating the fastest possible car ’ . |
| 7 | Later it occurred to him that it was lucky he had Moreau to vouch for him , otherwise his transparent interest in the fräulein might have made him suspect . |
| 8 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |