Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] him [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Caliban is often performed in the modern theatre as if he were a later version of Thersites , we tend to expect him to be a prose-speaker . |
| 2 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 3 | Merthyr want him to be their chief executive , masterminding their bid for Football League status — much as he did at Barnet . |
| 4 | He receives his 1687.50 in margin plus an invoice ( or settlement ) amount to compensate him for being allocated a time deposit yielding less than the settlement interest rate . |
| 5 | For my own part , I should not , judging by his face , have guessed him to be a poet . |
| 6 | Many more have claimed him to be a genius of the hidden writings of the past ; an unsurpassed esoteric ; an extraordinary magician who deliberately mixed up his mysterious verses to hide them from weaklings and meddlers . |
| 7 | At least , the cricket authorities have deemed him to be so , even if A.E . |
| 8 | Is God really as good as you have trusted him to be ? |
| 9 | By due process of law we have sentenced him to be slit in the hamstrings to be an example to those who would follow him and make him a hero to the people . |
| 10 | Peter Conrad 's previous books of critiism ismand autobiography have shown him to be a master of a certain style of brilliant , allusive , penetrating prose . |
| 11 | Bill remarks that the criteria have helped him to be clearer about what is involved in being a good supervisor . |
| 12 | But critics have accused him of being autocratic and intolerant of dissent . |
| 13 | He values the situations and people that have enabled him to be more himself , to find a dynamic fulfilment in the ability to express his deeper feelings , explore life further and evolve as a person . |
| 14 | He values the situations and people that have enabled him to be more himself , to find a dynamic fulfilment in the ability to express his deeper feelings , explore life further and evolve as a person . |
| 15 | We learn to see God as he really is , and not as we have imagined him to be . |
| 16 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 17 | Diverse roles in A Fish Called Wanda and Cry Freedom have kept him from being pigeon-holed by casting directors . |