Example sentences of "[prep] he be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He was on a road that led through a swamp , and then coming towards him was the rough figure of a shepherd , the jostling oval shapes of the animals . |
2 | Somewhere not too far below him were the wooden doors of the Gallery Window of the Jungfraujoch railway . |
3 | And then he was gone down the stairs , running lightly , for all his limp , and the last which she saw of him was the sandy-blond head before he turned the corner of the first landing . |
4 | Beneath him were the charred remains of a small Fire . |
5 | According to enterprise expert Peter Nicholson , Smith and those who think like him are the real entrepreneurs . |
6 | Behind him was the solid bulk of the blue box , and he walked around it again , still disbelieving . |
7 | Behind him was the stable area , now used as garages . |
8 | In the sky behind him was the grey shadow of a winged death skull . |
9 | ‘ With him are the Twelve Lords of Evil — each one the embodiment of the world 's great wickednesses . |
10 | All she ever had from him was the biting lash of his tongue . |
11 | Jnandas a poet of medieval India expressed the joy and aspirations of the humble soul who knows that within him is the divine spark , and he is therefore the All for which the festival is planned . |
12 | ‘ The thing that struck one about him was the fantastic charisma and this bright-eyed determination , which he has maintained to this very day , ’ recalled Graham . |
13 | All that remains for him is the bitter awareness of his own futility . |
14 | For him were the heavy tasks . |
15 | Waiting for him were the Bosnian Serb leader , Radovan Karadzic , Bosnian Croat leader , Mate Boban , and mediators Lord Owen and Cyrus Vance . |
16 | Waiting for him was the illuminated Lifeboat tram , on which he made a tour of the Promenade , waving to the crowds and commenting favourably on Blackpool 's modern streamlined trams . |
17 | She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon . |
18 | Not for him was the formal ceremony of admission , with its conditional baptism and its awesome recital of categorical promises . |
19 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |