Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the original charge against him was justified is unknown , but the incident cost the English 100 ships , and the remainder returned to London shortly before the arrival of a fresh force of raiders ; in the chronicler 's words , the effort of the whole nation came to nothing . |
| 2 | However , earlier exercise is permitted if the participant leaves the employment of the Group through death , redundancy , retirement , injury , disability , or the company or undertaking by which he is employed being transferred outside the Group ; or in the event of a takeover , reconstruction or voluntary winding-up of the Company . |
| 3 | I am sure that to conceal from a child the fact that he is adopted is both foolish and cruel . |
| 4 | For example , a client may come to a bureau because he is concerned that the housing benefit to which he is entitled is taking a long time to materialise . |
| 5 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 6 | ‘ Hoffman 's shy-guy ability to reach an audience is completely perverted ; to say he is miscast is an understatement . ’ |
| 7 | The measure of the esteem in which he is held is shown by three forthcoming exhibitions devoted to his contribution : ‘ L'Oeil du Connaisseur : hommage à Philip Pouncey ’ at the Louvre , 19 June-7 September ; another at the Uffizi later this year ( dates unavailable ) , and the third at the British Museum in January 1994 . |
| 8 | He is said to die in India , pierced with lances , and the tomb in which he is buried is later found empty . |
| 9 | In a sacramentary he is shown being crowned by Christ , and in a book of pericopes ( biblical extracts ) which he gave to the cathedral of Bamberg , Christ is crowning Henry with one hand and his wife Kunigund with the other , while the patron saints of Bamberg , Peter and Paul , look on . |
| 10 | Gary as he 's called is still trained by the Pitmans on the Lambourn Downs … |
| 11 | He 's stopped being friendly . |
| 12 | He has n't after all said anything false , because he has n't said anything at all : all he 's done is sigh . |
| 13 | He was United 's best player by some margin on the night . |
| 14 | The officers had grounds to suspect each appellant of having committed an offence by the time the first of the sales in which he was involved was transacted . |
| 15 | Kenneth Horne 's rich , fruity voice and warm patrician manner made him the ideal link man and that , coupled with a mischievous sense of humour , ensured that any programme in which he was involved was the better for his presence . |
| 16 | That 's why Nicholson 's character had to die ; he was the innocent and the only reason he was killed was because he was with two undesirable characters . |
| 17 | Tennyson turning down one of the countless invitations to tea with which he was plagued is one thing . |
| 18 | The first question he was asked was how he intended to overturn the ‘ deceit and deception ’ rife in the TCCB . |
| 19 | The first question he was asked was how he intended to overturn the ‘ deceit and deception ’ rife in the TCCB . |
| 20 | Karl was judged to be a normal , pleasant boy when he started as a clerical assistant in February 1943 , but he was soon complaining that the work he was given was boring and that his pay — 1/6d an hour — was not enough . |
| 21 | Shaw where the sanitary committee of a town council instructed the town clerk to prosecute a person and one of the justices before whom he was prosecuted was a member of that committee . |
| 22 | When he was appointed is not known , but it was before 1496 , for the rent roll dated Christmas of that year shows payment of £10 to him as priest and Schoolmaster at Stockport . |
| 23 | He was sort of well he was paralysed was n't he ? |
| 24 | These men have now spent 15 years in jail and Michael Hickey who was 16 when he was sentenced is now in Ashworth Secure Hospital . |
| 25 | Apart from an uncharacteristic first fence fall at Ascot on his third start , the only other time he was beaten was when going down by a half length to Minnehoma in the Sun Alliance Chasethe novices Gold Cup . |
| 26 | Not until after he was weaned was Joni reclaimed by his maternal grandmother , put in the care of an aunt , and finally placed with a family friend of very limited means . |
| 27 | He had to inflict pain on people he was told were enemies . |
| 28 | The picture of Christ eating with his disciples shortly before he was crucified is on a long-term loan from the Royal Academy in London . |
| 29 | Where he was educated is not known but he was apprenticed to John Marshall , a surgeon from Kilsyth , who was in charge of Glasgow University 's Physick garden in 1704 ( a physick garden was a source of herbs and other plants used for medical purposes ) . |
| 30 | Resistance might have been easier if he had been , not that her belief that he was had been enough to stop her succumbing to him once . |