Example sentences of "he [verb] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially the analyst does all the work , leading the user towards a system he thinks is right for the business . |
| 2 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 3 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 4 | In this role he has been responsible for LASMO 'S operated and non-operated North Sea projects . |
| 5 | Joining Rhenania in 1973 , he has been responsible for the company 's finance and accounts since 1976 . |
| 6 | Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire . |
| 7 | He spoke from his experience at Nissan where he has been responsible for developing and implementing Nissan 's philosophy and pratices and for ensuring that the business and personnel policies are totally integrated . |
| 8 | And in his spare time , he has been on-call for the past six years to wear a yellow helmet as a Retained Leading Firefighter with D Division of Strathclyde Fire Brigade based at Ardrossan . |
| 9 | Incidentally , although Fei called his book Peasant Life in China , he made no pretence that the social system he described was typical for the whole country . |
| 10 | Coun Michna has been a leading opponent of the scheme , which he says is inappropriate for Clairville Common . |
| 11 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 12 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 13 | Wilson identified with his father , to the extent of wanting to have genital , genital contact with him , since Wilson saw his father as the author of all his skills , his strength and all that he 'd been grateful for . |
| 14 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 15 | But he was also a healthy adult male with an appetite for life , an appetite he was accustomed to feeding , and he 'd been hungry for too long . |
| 16 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 17 | Oh he 'd been ill for about six months I think , but erm |
| 18 | For almost two months he 'd been worried for his son . |
| 19 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 20 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 21 | He had been dry for the past twenty years . |
| 22 | At his death he had been married for at least nine years to a wife called Margaret . |
| 23 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 24 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 25 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 26 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 27 | He felt light-headed , as if he had been awake for days on end . |
| 28 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke last night received an apology from ITN for claiming that he had been late for yesterday 's wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph . |
| 30 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |