Example sentences of "he [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left him in charge of the whole of my affairs during my absence from England , with a perfect conviction that he would zealously exert himself for my interest , and the confidence I reposed in him has been fully realised , not only during my absence , but during the long period of eighteen years . ’ |
| 2 | The thought of staying here and watching him drown was too horrific to contemplate . |
| 3 | Asking him to deliver is like expected a chameleon to stay the same colour whatever its environment . |
| 4 | For him negotiating is less a game of poker and more a game of chess . |
| 5 | Although she had come to dislike Dr McNab , believing him to have been indirectly responsible for her father 's death , she remained constantly at his side , helping him to care for the sick and wounded . |
| 6 | He was suspicious of all educational innovations that did not seem to him to have been carefully thought through , and he was critical , too , of the report of the committee on higher education ( 1961–4 ) chaired by Baron Robbins [ q.v. ] and of large-scale university expansion . |
| 7 | I would judge him to have been about thirty-seven or eight . |
| 8 | Her smile seemed to him to have been almost aloof , perhaps even disapproving . |
| 9 | ( Although Billy had undoubtedly been guilty as charged , the evidence against him had been largely manufactured , and none of his family had ever recovered from the injustice of this . ) |
| 10 | And gradually it came clear to him that every job the mate had given him had been carefully chosen to help him on his way to the bridge . |
| 11 | He then realised that he had already seen his son some distance from the door and that his conviction that it was him had been totally irrational . |
| 12 | Her response to him had been totally instinctive , nothing to do with anything she had read or seen . |
| 13 | But there had been no spirit in him , the shock of what his father told him had been too great . |
| 14 | With a rush of emotion she could n't put a name to Luce realised that her first instinctive feeling about him had been absolutely right . |
| 15 | When he let go of her to shut the door her impatience for him to return was almost more than her body could stand . |
| 16 | But those women closest to him have been singularly unlucky . |
| 17 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 18 | The people around him have been very receptive , although I must confess to an anxious moment when he was first being introduced to the players . |
| 19 | But I am certain that the mistake he made is somehow lodged in your stories . |
| 20 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 21 | The small bow he made was all she needed . |
| 22 | Joseph Rank had his first mill in Sproatley and the house where he lived is still outwardly the same , but the mill foundation was removed about 20 years ago when a modern housing estate was built . |
| 23 | He 's , I , he , the way he plays is virtually unique , is n't he ? |
| 24 | The way he plays is quite unbelievable . |
| 25 | He sat down on a sofa which he realised was slightly longer than his cubicle in the lodging house . |
| 26 | The assemblage of lands which he ruled is traditionally called the Angevin Empire and the name is important . |
| 27 | The proofs which he produced were so convincing that to keep him quiet he was first made Bishop of Exeter and then , when he complained that the diocese 's revenues were inadequate for his family , Bishop of Worcester . |
| 28 | The Likud Prime Minister , Mr Yitzhak Shamir , proposed holding the elections last May , but he is resolutely opposed to any role for Mr Yasser Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation , which he insists is still committed to terrorism . |
| 29 | Despite the slightly unsatisfactory nature of the data set used by Lucas , and although the tests he applied were hardly rigorous , his paper was influential in that it was one of the first to show that certain of the predictions made by the rational expectations hypothesis were not entirely inconsistent with the data . |
| 30 | Her whole being was aflame with desire for him , but the question that he asked was so tender , so loving , that she knew the answer she gave would be the one that he subconsciously wanted to hear . |