Example sentences of "he be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The streetwise young black would have done just that , had he been given the chance . |
| 2 | Had he been watching the others , before he took his own spoonful ? |
| 3 | Had he been telling the truth ? |
| 4 | His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day . |
| 5 | At Key Biscayne , a week before he expected to be competing in the doubles against Czechoslovakia in their Davis Cup quarter finals , he even started outlining some of the changes he would make should he be given the job . |
| 6 | So who will he be giving the information to ? |
| 7 | Historically the Sigmar votes tend to be cast on behalf of the Count of the Reikland , while the Ulric vote almost invariably goes to the Count of Middenheim should he be contesting the election . |
| 8 | Suppose he were to encounter the Ryemarks or even Robin Tatian ? |
| 9 | ‘ Ye-es , ’ said Linley as though he were considering the predicament with sympathy . |
| 10 | He would need to ring for a cab if he were to regain the Party conference in comfort . |
| 11 | He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon . |
| 12 | Olechowski needed the support of the IMF if he were to renegotiate the terms of Poland 's US$1,600 million three-year extended facility which had been approved in April 1991 [ see p. 38162 ] but suspended in October after the previous government failed to meet IMF performance criteria on the budget deficit and expansion of domestic credit . |
| 13 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 14 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 15 | Fagg emitted an interesting glugging sound , rather as if he were repeating the name of the insulted Vietnamese over and over again . |
| 16 | He always rides as if he were winning the St Leger . |
| 17 | If he were to tell the truth it would provoke Newton into the next carriage across the Sands . |
| 18 | Actually , if he were offered the choice of going wherever he liked in the world , he would probably choose Wimbledon . |
| 19 | That is , he will not make the same judgements as he would make if he were viewing the scene itself . |
| 20 | If he were to discover the nature and the limits of this person he was — and , as time went by , stave off the timor mortis — fear of death — then he would go for the nerve and the bone , draw blood . |
| 21 | At the inspectorate he is advising the Home Secretary on policy in four crucial areas : complaints and discipline ; firearms ; public order and counter-terrorism . |
| 22 | He is wearing the mantle now , made from the skins of the hyrax , a flea-ridden animal which looks like a giant guinea pig . |
| 23 | ‘ I believe he is bringing the sport into disrepute . |
| 24 | You just see he is filling the eyes of your friends |
| 25 | If the defendant has made an interim payment before he pays in , his notice must specifically refer to the interim payment and aggregate the two amounts if he is to put the plaintiff at risk for the total . |
| 26 | Bill rates Ayr , along with Ascot , Newmarket and York , as one of his favourite tracks and he is eyeing the Ayr Gold Cup next Saturday as a possible target for his consistent Big Hand . |
| 27 | Again at Easter he is arguing over his fee for attending the Archbishop at Canterbury and threatens that unless he is payed the sum of twenty shillings a day for three days he would never again obey the Archbishop 's mandate . |
| 28 | FORMER Tottenham defender Paul Miller yesterday revealed he is helping the consortium bidding to buy-out Barnet chairman Stan Flashman for £1 million . |
| 29 | Thus a car dealer does not obtain the protection and that is so even if he is buying the vehicle for his own private purposes and not for his business purposes , Stevenson v. Beverley Bentinck ( 1976 C.A. ) . |
| 30 | He is moving the factory to Doncaster ( though he will keep an office in London ) and looking for voluntary redundancies . |