Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | after I 've seen the family , will be to go to see him . |
| 2 | Seeing that Bruce Harris is to be in Britain in November , I wondered whether it could be arranged to send him something then instead . |
| 3 | One can imagine his dismay when he returned to the port and found the ship had gone — either earlier than planned or because the crew did n't want to be caught helping him . |
| 4 | He was Welsh , of course , by his name ; this frontier site might be expected to excite him . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 6 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 8 | The researcher must try to resist the attempts that will almost certainly be made to get him or her to ‘ take sides ’ . |
| 9 | That leaves the Russians relying on inexperienced stand-in Aleksandr Goteyen , and Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will be looking to exploit him . |
| 10 | Martin Hines says he 's been a winner here twice and everyone will be looking to beat him . |
| 11 | After he is wounded in this staged hunt , perhaps she could be seen to nurse him daily with iodine and mercurochrome , out of remorse , but in the process establishing the first physical contact . |
| 12 | ‘ If the king my brother-in-law is ill , then it behoves me to see him , judge what may be done to assist him and inform the queen-dowager . ’ |
| 13 | And the Social Services are helpless too , unless Andrew decides to help himself and come off glue , nothing can be done to protect him . |
| 14 | He passed some coins over without counting , staring stupidly at the eyes that looked hurt with expected rejection , as if the man knew what would be said to put him off . |
| 15 | At p625 he stated : A vendor selling property to a purchaser can not be said to lend him the unpaid portion of the purchase price . |
| 16 | Where the defendant has innocently made a substantial investment on the basis of information innocently acquired it is most unlikely that an injunction would be granted to restrain him from making use of that information ( although the fact that an injunction might drive the defendant into liquidation is not relevant if the tests in American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon [ 1975 ] AC 396 have been satisfied ; per May LJ in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis [ 1987 ] ICR 464 ) . |
| 17 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 18 | But now what miracle of ingenuity would be needed to get him out ? |
| 19 | They can not imagine him as a Prime Minister , and they can not imagine that the British public can be persuaded to elect him to that post . |
| 20 | In the split-second when he had first mentioned marriage , Ashley had harboured the giddy irrational notion that he might next be going to say he loved her . |
| 21 | William and his mother were supposed to be going to join him later . |
| 22 | Could she really be going to kill him now ? |
| 23 | Oh , well , I guess if you do n't know who he is you ca n't be going to marry him , can you ? ’ he asked with irrefutable logic . |
| 24 | The emergency plan was for Giles , fingers crossed , to take the tube from Heathrow to Hammersmith , where we 'd be waiting to pick him up . |
| 25 | Endill remembered that this was the place where someone would be waiting to meet him . |
| 26 | Castro , though the legitimate ruler of Cuba , had moved into the Communist camp ; Cuba was in America 's " backyard " ; and so any means might be employed to remove him . |
| 27 | He was dressed for dinner and she knew without doubt that they were not going to be invited to join him . |
| 28 | He recalls vividly being told shortly after he took the job at Fawley refinery that an Esso director would be calling to see him . |
| 29 | People who knew the whole Guérigny family would be bound to stop him and ask him questions he did not want to face . |
| 30 | Almost certainly , they 'd be coming to see him , too . |