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 .
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