Example sentences of "he be [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 2 | He 's lived with her for six years but can only describe her job vaguely , as ‘ something in administration ’ . |
| 3 | He 's worked with them for years . |
| 4 | I felt he was vying with me for proprietary rights over Jean-Claude . |
| 5 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 6 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 7 | He was irritated with himself for being so pathetic . |