Example sentences of "he be [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , one reason why Mr Hammer 's message has been received so eagerly is that , to a large extent , he is preaching to the converted . |
| 3 | What roughly he says is that he is committed to the following scientific arguments , arguments based upon scientific principles , regardless of any pain that may be caused to him or to others by so doing . |
| 4 | inserting common paragraphs , for example if half the students make the same mistake , it is useful for the marker to prepare a paragraph explaining the error , and to paste this into each of the documents he is returning to the errant students . |
| 5 | At the moment they 're leading by three goals to two as now plays it away to this right hand side to Stewart , makes a charge forward , he 's taking on Chris , he 's getting to the right edge of the penalty area , he crosses low with his right boot , chance for in the area , he turned quickly on it but he blasted the t the shot over the top of the bar . |
| 6 | He 's written to the British Olympic Committee asking it to investigate . |
| 7 | Now th that , that if you like is , is the new strategy that he 's putting to the Communist Party and he 's saying look , you should recognize this is going on , there is a , there , there is a , a growing class basis to this and we must lead it because it is the way forward . |
| 8 | Well he 's talking to the good man , is n't he . |
| 9 | So Jesus when he sees their situation , he 's not concerned by the storm by the way , he 's not put out by that because he knows he 's going to the other side , but for the sake of them he gets up and he speaks the word , Jesus he said , peace . |
| 10 | Next year he 's going to the Royal College of Music . |
| 11 | Let's try following ‘ happy about ’ , and see if he 's going to the same address . |
| 12 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 13 | He so impressed the permanent secretary , Sir Donald Maitland , that he was invited to the key civil servants ' committees . |
| 14 | By this he was referring to the chief justices and three judges of the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King 's Bench and the chief baron and three barons of the Court of Exchequer , being the three courts of common law . |
| 15 | He was referring to the slight dizziness she 'd experienced when they 'd first come into the moonshadow of the trees . |
| 16 | Ignorantly , I thought he was referring to the great Catholic/Protestant divide . |
| 17 | It was all a roundabout way of saying that Sien was synonymous with sorrow , and perhaps as well he was referring to the sorrowing mother of their childhood . |
| 18 | He was referring to the atrocious reporting in that paper and other tabloids of the trial of Michelle and Lisa Taylor . |
| 19 | He was referring to the British Government 's ‘ bloody Tories ’ trade block against Russia whose revolution threatened European equilibrium . |
| 20 | Whilst that order was in operation he was transferred to the secure unit near Bristol . |
| 21 | He was transferred to the intensive care unit for intubation for airway control after a period of desaturation . |
| 22 | Following penicillin and cefotaxime administration he was transferred to the intensive care unit , where he made a complete recovery . |
| 23 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | He was posted to the eastern Mediterranean , arriving too late for the Gallipoli campaign , but serving on the Salonika front for most of the rest of the world war . |
| 25 | He was posted to the secret counter-insurgency base , Vlakplaas . |
| 26 | Similarly , between 27 July and 3 September , following the outbreak of the civil war , he was assigned to the Spanish front by L'Humanite . |
| 27 | In 1806 he was called to the Irish bar and took silk twenty years later . |
| 28 | He was called to the next bungalow ; the woman 's trying to sell it ; and there he saw the happy couple saying goodbye to each other . |
| 29 | Educated at Belfast Royal Academy , Queen 's University and Trinity College in Dublin , he was called to the English bar at Gray 's Inn in 1945 . |
| 30 | He was reacting to the Tory group 's comments that the ‘ prophets of doom and gloom ’ were incapable of recognising how much the region has progressed in the last 13 years . |