Example sentences of "he [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 2 | ‘ He hates being on the road , ’ said Marco . |
| 3 | Benson 's owner Denise Taylor , of Brockett Close , Newton Aycliffe , said : ‘ He hates being on a lead . |
| 4 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 5 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
| 6 | He trill is in good working order , she can float a quiet top A as at the end of ‘ Senza mamma ’ , and though she had a problem with breath-control she can sill manage skilfully in such testing pieces as the Freischütz arias . |
| 7 | The answer he got was in the line that Frank looked uninspired in training ( well as ‘ inspired ’ as Deano looks from time to time in the games i guess Deano most look — very — inspired in training ) . |
| 8 | He admitted being at the Savoy nightclub that evening but said he had gone home with a friend . |
| 9 | Dingwall Sheriff Court fined Richard Michalek of Duncanstown , Ross-shire , a hefty £4,000 after he admitted being in possession of 14 dead wild birds . |
| 10 | He admitted being in breach of bail and in breach of a probation order . |
| 11 | One way in which he does that he thinks is by plural voting , that you give the educated more than one vote , he says we have to make sure the educated do n't form their own class with their own class interests , but , but giving the educated a bigger say will lead us to make better decisions he thinks . |
| 12 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |
| 13 | What he writes is of interest because it shows his attitude to his illness , and to the importance of relieving the pressures of his illness . |
| 14 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 15 | ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said . |
| 16 | He has been to Taiwan on two or three occasions and it was his idea that we come to New Zealand and develop our forward play ’ , said Lin . |
| 17 | ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’ |
| 18 | He is very affectionate , and I would n't be without him now , and he has been to the vet 's for his injections so as to avoid another disaster . |
| 19 | ‘ Tagan is our best tracker , ’ Ratagan said , ‘ and he has been to the Greshorns . ’ |
| 20 | He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact . |
| 21 | He is a fair-minded bloke on occasions — at least he has been to me . |
| 22 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 23 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 24 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 25 | It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades . |
| 26 | He has been for the last six years . ’ |
| 27 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 28 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 29 | He has been with ‘ our old friend ’ too long . |
| 30 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |