Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's got four lorries in there now an' I did 'ear 'e was lookin' fer anuvver place . |
| 2 | The attacks on him are born of jealousy and political snobbery . ’ |
| 3 | The attacks on him are born from jealousy and political snobbery . |
| 4 | The usual explanation of offshore bars is that given by Johnson ( 1919 ) and the stages of formation envisaged by him are shown in Fig. 8. 18 . |
| 5 | As long ago as Plato it was believed , ‘ if a person be guilty of impiety let him be punished with death . ’ |
| 6 | Men like him were born with charm , exuded sensuality as unthinkingly as they breathed in air . |
| 7 | He even felt a rather pleasant sense of detachment from what was going on , almost as though everything around him were happening on television and the barman might switch to another channel at any moment . |
| 8 | Wearing a blue blazer , a white open-necked shirt and jeans , Newall listened intently as his lawyer battled to stop him being sent for trial in Britain . |
| 9 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 10 | But Mansell , still bruised and shaken after his accident on Saturday , had to overcome a poor start , which had resulted in him being passed by team-mate Riccardo Patrese on the opening lap . |
| 11 | The victim was charged with obstruction , and the passenger travelling with him was charged with assault . |
| 12 | The decision to drop the case against him was made by Director of Public Prosecutions Barbara Mills , after the collapse of another trial involving the same company , Plasser Railway Machinery . |
| 13 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 14 | I neither knew nor cared whether my distress for him was based on love for a man or love for a patient . |
| 15 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 16 | The rest of him was suspended in limbo . |
| 17 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 18 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |
| 19 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 20 | Had he been standing within striking distance , then , as her fury overflowed , Leith was fairly certain she would have hit him . |
| 21 | The armed robber might say that he had no intention of using the firearm , that he carried it with him simply to frighten the victim , and that it went off accidentally : if the jury believes that , should he be convicted of murder ? |
| 22 | If the jury believes that , should he be convicted of murder ? |
| 23 | He was not black , nor could he be mistaken for white . |
| 24 | Nor will he be standing for election as Institute vice president this year . |
| 25 | How could he be falling in love with the beautiful cuckoo in his nest who was exactly the sort of pampered darling a poor doctor ought to avoid ? |
| 26 | So will he be returning to sea ? |
| 27 | and he being dropped at sort of nine o'clock |
| 28 | During his twenties his father and he were sundered by religion . |
| 29 | Soon as you said you ca n't do it he were gone for dust ! |
| 30 | Albert said in a reverent voice as if he were speaking in church . |