Example sentences of "he be [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crucial question was : where had he been on the eleventh ? |
| 2 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 3 | Deakin was a striker who found the net regularly and the evidence suggests that , had he been at a bigger club , he would have benefited from a better service and become a prolific scorer . |
| 4 | ‘ Forgot a lot o' things , did old Blackberry ! ’ observed Forest , addressing Richard as if he were of a sudden a force to be reckoned with . |
| 5 | Number 47 looked as if he were in a conversational mood . |
| 6 | He felt slightly awkward , as though he were in a strange woman 's room . |
| 7 | Moments later her father answered the call , his voice coming as clearly as if he were in the same room , and even loudly enough for Silas to hear it . |
| 8 | If he were in the very act of cutting his own throat , how could Harry have stopped him ? |
| 9 | ‘ He is worth a hundred workaday mortals . |
| 10 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 11 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 12 | At 43 , he is worth an estimated £110 million . |
| 13 | His Mother tells me that he is of a mechanical turn , and I know that he has made some progress in mathematics . |
| 14 | If he is of a poetic turn of mind , will he even see a kind of justice in the eventual return to silicon-based life , with DNA no more than an interlude , albeit one that lasted longer than three aeons ? |
| 15 | Do n't be put off by old ‘ Crazy Horse ’ Emlyn — he is of the high-pitched voice and cheesy grin . |
| 16 | It can accurately tell him where he is to the nearest ten metres or so . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most important question in the wake of IT Year must be : what will Kenneth Baker do now that he is at a loose end ? |
| 18 | He is at a significant stage in his development , but has had an excellent domestic season and also performed well for England ‘ B ’ . |
| 19 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 20 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 21 | And because he is at the same time King , he is also responsible for the executive as well as the judicial aspect . |
| 22 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 23 | He is with a second man . |
| 24 | Do you remember that day , Bernard , she come in the shop and he he here he is with a wee Pot Noodle and , and it 's going all over the floor ! |
| 25 | ‘ All I know is that he is with the naval air forces . |
| 26 | Hoeness has recently made discreet enquiries about Robins , in action against Tottenham today , and believes he could prise him away from Carrow Road , where he is on a four-year contract , providing the terms were right . |
| 27 | He is on a constant crusade to take the church to the people . |
| 28 | whether he is on the right road or not : |
| 29 | She realises he is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime . ’ |
| 30 | He is on the other side sitting on the end of the log . ’ |