Example sentences of "[subord] he [be] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 2 | He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age . |
| 3 | He sat back in his chair again , dragging it round so he was under the shade too . |
| 4 | Once he is under suspicion he ca n't win . |
| 5 | And when he went for his injections I said to the vet can you snip that funny little growth and he said oh we 'll wait until he 's under , complete anaesthetic and then , it 's only a little wart he said . |
| 6 | He wandered around until he was under the enormous swelling bulk of the fuel tank . |
| 7 | His own voice sounded rather odd , as if he was under strain . |
| 8 | ‘ Give me one good reason , ’ he demanded , somehow his voice reaching her as gruff and as if he was under some powerful emotion too . |
| 9 | She wondered if he was under business pressure . |
| 10 | It beat so fast as if he was under a strain . |
| 11 | For a moment he did not know where he was : the darkness lay upon him like a leaden weight , crushing him as if he were under a ton of river-water . |
| 12 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 13 | King John had not been invited because he was under sentence of excommunication — he did not , therefore , legally exist — but when the council finally took place five proctors represented the king of England , three of whom were clerics , the archbishop of Bordeaux , the archbishop of Dublin and the king 's chancellor , Richard Marsh , and two laymen , John Marshal and Geoffrey Lutterel . |
| 14 | He remembered little about the fires because he was under the influence of drink and did not realise what he was doing . |
| 15 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 16 | The instructions about practising will have been given while he was under hypnosis ( although he will , of course , have heard and understood every word ) and so , because he is willing for it to happen , they will be firmly planted in his subconscious mind . |
| 17 | This argument reflects the official view disseminated after the war had begun again that Edward had been coerced into accepting the treaty while he was under the tutelage of Mortimer and Isabella and that therefore he could not be bound by it . |
| 18 | A revelation which William James experienced when taking nitrous oxide took the form of doggerel , which he genuinely believed to be of enormous significance while he was under the influence of the drug : Higamous Hogamous , women are monogamous , Hogamous higamous , men are polygamous . |
| 19 | To murder a man while he was under her roof … |
| 20 | Holly finding that his packet had not been taken , retrieving it , hurrying away , and frightened to look over his shoulder and check whether he was under surveillance . |
| 21 | Firth may be generalisable : a person can obtain by deception even though he did not put forth a misrepresentation , when he is under a duty to disclose . |
| 22 | If you will not come to us I am resolved to bring Oreste to you by and by so you may see how he progresses which I hope will be as well as when he was under your care . |
| 23 | He always began to stammer when he was under pressure and immediately became conscious of his cleft palate . |
| 24 | She visited him when he was under sentence of death at Wandsworth and he wrote one of his last and most affectionate letters to her . |
| 25 | Westmacott could not follow as he was under attack by the Bf109s , but the Controller later reported that the bomber 's ‘ plot ’ had disappeared from the radar screen halfway to Sicily , and Westmacott was awarded a probable . |
| 26 | He may not , however , have sat in the final term as he was under sentence of excommunication , possibly for his part in the battle of Lewes . |