Example sentences of "he be [verb] [adv] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is made too free of the house , ’ muttered Paul , feeling he must put in his word . |
| 2 | His home is stacked with literally hundreds and he 's made almost all of them . |
| 3 | He 's taken away some of my clothes for forensic tests . ’ |
| 4 | When Charlemagne gave his support and patronage to Aethelred , he was honouring only one of at least four princely lines — Osred 's , Osbald 's , Aethelred 's and Eardwulf 's — and even with Frankish blessing Aethelred was unable in these circumstances to establish a long-lasting regime . |
| 5 | This is largely because he was mistaken about two of his standard candles : his cepheid variables had characteristics somewhat different from those he assumed , and some of his brightest ‘ stars ’ were actually highly luminous bodies of ionised hydrogen . |
| 6 | He was seeing so much of Fergie he was almost one of the family |
| 7 | Elsewhere , he was made acutely aware of the contrast between the colonial regency houses and the ugly jungle bungalows and villas . |
| 8 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 9 | He was asking too much of her ! |
| 10 | Perhaps he was making too much of it . |
| 11 | He was running over some of these in his mind when Dandelion appeared . |
| 12 | He was found not guilty of the serious charge of seditious libel but guilty of the lesser misdemeanour of creating a public mischief . |
| 13 | He was found not guilty of supplying a copy of an unclassified and uncut version of the sexually explicit film Caligula . |
| 14 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 15 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 16 | He was held not guilty of robbery because the threats were not made in order to take the money . |
| 17 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 18 | I was Jean-Claude 's gateway to the future , and I sensed he was becoming increasingly conscious of the fact , and satisfied with our relationship . |
| 19 | He was becoming increasingly conscious of the existence of something at the core — in fact , a suspicion , a threat , which must at all costs be shielded from his probes . |