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Example sentences of "he be [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Had he been interned until the end of the war in Tost or one of the other civilian camps , he would probably have faced no charges .
2	Had he been charged with the more serious offence of causing death by reckless driving , he would have faced a Crown court and a jail sentence of up to five years .
3	Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits .
4	a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last
5	Has he been working for a long time ?
6	Where was he , had he been taken by the constables ?
7	All right , he was what he was : he was n't fundamentally a nice man , yet , had he been greeted in the beginning by this old woman as Andrew Jones had , how different things might have been .
8	Francie 's shoes were brilliant with polish but Finn 's were caked with mud — though where could he have been , had he been walking in the pleasure garden by himself , talking to the broken queen and patting the stone lioness on the head ?
9	Not only will he be accepted on the terraces but also as a drinking partner in the local pubs .
10	Nor can he be credited with the chi rho monogram .
11	Well , ca n't he be moved into a different class ?
12	The effect of s80 is that if , for instance , the settlor creates a trust for himself for life and then his son for life or absolutely that in order for the trust to be an excluded property trust the settlor must not be domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time when the settlement is created and nor must he be domiciled in the United Kingdom ( and this would include deemed domiciled in the United Kingdom ) at the time of his death .
13	Why should he be called like the others ?
14	Only if the client is still unhappy would he be directed to the Solicitors Complaints Bureau .
15	What would he be doing on a scientific installation ? ’
16	But what would he be doing in the middle of nowhere … unless he was keeping an eye on Mungo , to see that he was safe ?
17	At all events , I shall be much obliged to you if you will write to me as soon as possible — in order that , if you do not hold out any hope , he may not lose time , and if you do , that you may receive further information ; and he be put into the way of preparing himself , according to your wishes , for the situation .
18	‘ If it were he why should he be attacked in the forest ? ’
19	Why is he being interviewed in the pages of this magazine ?
20	‘ I propose therefore that the Recorder be asked to address the people , he being considered as the mouth of the City ’ . '
21	Why was he being taken to a government building ?
22	He knew that he was not going to be happy if he were deprived of the chance to study .
23	Or rather , as Clive would look if he were to live to the age of one hundred and fifty and then die .
24	‘ So if he were poisoned by the entrée , he did n't display any symptoms for over an hour .
25	The bottom line is that whilst Wilko has made decisions which have upset , even annoyed us , if he were to leave for the England job there is no-one remotely capable of replacing him .
26	Jim spoke as if he were telephoning from a golf club instead of a cuckold 's bed .
27	His swollen upper lip felt enormous and stiff , as though he were recovering from a dental injection .
28	‘ Only that he were hiding in the garden . ’
29	The story went around that once , when he was seriously ill , he was advised by his doctors that it would improve his chances of survival if he were to sleep with a woman .
30	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 .