Example sentences of "he be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time she wildly imagines him being unfaithful to her in a thousand trivial ways . |
| 2 | He was a tall , red-haired man , according to the descriptions he had one shoulder higher than the other , but that did n't seem to prevent him being attractive to women . |
| 3 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 4 | The other children do n't trust him — they do n't mind watching him being horrible to other people but they 're afraid of Gowie being horrible to them . |
| 5 | Gandhi in fact does conceive the purpose of life to be to know the Self , which for him is equivalent to realizing God or knowing the Truth . |
| 6 | ( b ) Money paid to a person in a public or quasi-public position to obtain the performance by him of a duty which he is bound to perform for nothing or for less than the sum demanded by him is recoverable to the extent that he is not entitled to it . |
| 7 | The Book of Proverbs makes it clear that happiness and discipline go hand in hand from the beginning of our lives : ‘ He who spares the rod hates his son , but he who loves him is careful to discipline him . ’ |
| 8 | She guessed that the earthquake was responsible for his presence , since flights in and out of Taipei were functioning normally again already , but whatever concern had brought him was unlikely to be personal . |
| 9 | Suddenly , the very touch of him was obnoxious to her . |
| 10 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 11 | Had he been cruel to Sybil Vane ? |
| 12 | Has he been bad to that poor wee , wee'un again ? |
| 13 | Would he be able to stagger onward ? |
| 14 | Is he being false to his convictions ? |
| 15 | That he were married to a mad woman . |
| 16 | His voice was muffled by the pillow , but it sounded to Cassie as if he were close to tears . |
| 17 | If only he were attractive to women ! |
| 18 | Not only is it hard to see how the buyer can then bring an action for breach of contract , as opposed to invoking the express remedies of the clause , but , even if he were able to , there is no reason why general exclusion clauses capping liability or excluding liability for economic loss should not be effective , since they would then only have to pass the reasonableness test . |
| 19 | As a TV-am After Nine contributor , he is used to answering all types of questions . |
| 20 | He is used to ruling autocratically , as are his advisers . |
| 21 | He is used to it , though ; this is his 11th failure in 12 years of trying . |
| 22 | He is used to it , though ; this is his 11th failure in 12 years of trying . |
| 23 | He likes it , and he is used to grooming sessions . |
| 24 | Perhaps he is used to eating the grass sometimes while we brush him . |
| 25 | A duvet is more practical than sheets , blankets and eiderdown , although the patient may prefer them if they are what he is used to . |
| 26 | As co-presenter of BBC1 's Wildbunch and director of the Animal Information Bureau , he is used to answering all types of questions . |
| 27 | But once he is used to it , he will trust his right , which he did often enough against Coventry . ’ |
| 28 | As the author of two volumes of poetry in addition to The Golden Gate ) , he is used to skimming off excess verbiage . |
| 29 | He took a turn at firing and soon mastered the Castle 's long firebox which is somewhat different to the wide fireboxes he is used to . |
| 30 | As he is used to painting large canvases , a huge blank wall was not a problem . |