Example sentences of "[adj] he be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking to defence writers , he made clear he was against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation taking over responsibility for all peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia should a ceasefire and peace be agreed . |
| 2 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 3 | This point is proved by the officer or warden describing how visible he was to the driver , e.g. ‘ I was clearly visible to a driver approaching the crossroads etc … |
| 4 | While Iran was undergoing fundamental changes in the seventies he was on the outside , instead of authority at home . |
| 5 | AT 1.15 I call the AA to ask can I borrow a patrolman for the afternoon , and at 1.45 he 's at the door with sewn-in trouser creases and a shiny van , packed tight as an egg with tools and spares . |
| 6 | By 1252 he was at the height of his power and high in royal esteem . |
| 7 | ‘ There is a sick Jewish problem of voting for a black man no matter how unfit he is for the job , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In 1807 he was in the expedition that failed to take Buenos Aires and subsequently went with his battalion to India . |
| 9 | In January 1283 he was at the siege of the castle of Dolwyddelan , whose nodal position made its capture crucial to the English conquest of Snowdonia . |
| 10 | Yet it was John Lightfoot [ q.v. ] , the Christian Hebraist at Cambridge , who secured an academic position for Abendana , and from 1663 until 1667 he was on the payroll of Trinity College , Cambridge , working on his translation of the Mishnah . |
| 11 | That will depend on how good he is on the day . |
| 12 | After all he 's in the yard . |
| 13 | We are going to a tribunal on Tuesday to buy a keeper with a lot of potential — but that 's all he is at the moment , a lot of potential . ’ |
| 14 | If he was home at all he was in the flat . |
| 15 | The ‘ Megatop Phoenix ’ era finds Mick wrestling with poor returns , but with the inception of BAD II he 's on the track once more , wearing daft hats and running with the oldest , coolest street gang in the business . |
| 16 | " Not without knowing how long he was in the water . " |
| 17 | In 1858–9 he was in the service of the Admiralty , before returning to south Wales , where for ten years he was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Sirhowy Tramroad , which he converted into a standard railway . |
| 18 | He was leaving behind the other children , the only friends he had , and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world . |
| 19 | By February 1469 he was in the company of his brother the king and took an active role in the trial for treason of Henry Courtenay and Thomas Hungerford . |
| 20 | By February 1469 he was in the company of his brother the king and took an active role in the trial for treason of Henry Courtenay and Thomas Hungerford . |
| 21 | Blake says how pleased he is with the firm 's improved performance , acknowledging the considerable efforts and progress it has made . |
| 22 | He did so again not long afterwards , again in front of Allen , mentioning how pleased he was with the mini-finding of December that had retroactively authorized the arms sales . |
| 23 | His most endearing was how loving he was at the start . |
| 24 | It shows how really fragile he is at the moment , I suppose . |
| 25 | As an ascetic he was in the mould of the medieval Christians , but when his heart overruled his intellect he would write warm , sensuous love poetry under the cloak of religion . |
| 26 | He could tell her face to face how sorry he was for the incident of the previous night . |
| 27 | But even in this one instance , the way in which he introduced his quotation showed how little he was in the habit of being guided by it . |
| 28 | It 's like what 's his name Sammy Davis , when he was alive he was on the telly doing all these and he said how can you do this fellows now he said ? |
| 29 | What I am suggesting is you knew there was an armed man in the flat , you were worried he was under the bed and if only concern was to get that bed up and over to check he was n't there , you did n't bother to wait to get Julie off it . |
| 30 | From 1870 to 1880 he was at the office of the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt [ q.v. ] , and later went into partnership with the latter 's son Matthew . |