Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd blame it all on the beer and the sherry , he 'd say with a laugh she 'd been right to tell him not to take any . |
| 2 | Joe , a friend from school , had been due to meet him there , half an hour earlier . |
| 3 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |
| 4 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 5 | If Luke had shrugged his shoulders and claimed a diabolic omniscience she would have been disposed to believe him . |
| 6 | It was annoying for them when their womenfolk smiled upon Memet , and it would have been inadvisable to hit him , since he came from a family as large as their own and as little troubled by the niceties of correct behaviour . |
| 7 | Yes , but particularly with reference to John Major , I think he 's had an amazing honeymoon and people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as you were about his quote treatment of women unquote , and I suspect that the media have been particularly sympathetic and wearing kid gloves with him , and I find that the role of the media is to probe and to pry and |
| 8 | Yeah , the one thing you have got there is that people are prepared to take him on . |
| 9 | AT LEAST Barnet players could always turn to Barry Fry , but now he 's gone , they are prepared to follow him out of the club in a mass exodus . |
| 10 | He had lost himself in her , and she had been willing to take him . |
| 11 | Worse , she had been prepared to let him go on using her , had he chosen to do so . |
| 12 | EVER since I saw David Bellamy disappearing down a crack in a garden path to demonstrate that we all had our own ‘ personal schooool of evolution ’ close at hand , I have been prepared to concede him an eternal place among the inexorably tenacious . |
| 13 | It would have been wrong to marry him ; he deserves better . ’ |
| 14 | A fanatical letter writer , Peter , 19 , says people are wrong to picture him playing out in the bush . |
| 15 | Yes but my Lord d dealing also with the suggestion by the defendants that it would have been improper to advise him to serve completion notice when he was n't in a position to complete and the solicitor deals with the the expert deals also with that position as to what is the practice of a solicitor in that situation if there 's a potential er problem for that particular solicitor to what the advice should be as to how the client should deal with the that . |
| 16 | If not , they are free to treat him in what they believe to be his best interests . |
| 17 | Hodkinson 's promoter , Barney Eastwood , revealed : ‘ French TV loved Paul so much they are willing to have him back before Christmas and fight an opponent of his own choosing . ’ |
| 18 | He would like to hold a discussion meeting for like minds so if you are interested give him a ring on 0533 770531 . |
| 19 | It demonstrates how assiduously my hon. Friend serves his constituents , and I am delighted to see him here . |
| 20 | The Prince had loved children , had been very kind to them , and Sally-Anne had been delighted to see him gravely encourage two four-year-old boys , the twin sons of an old friend , to race pieces of bread , butter and jam up and down his expensively trousered leg . |
| 21 | Now the family is so desperate they want to move away to start life afresh — away from the older boys who they are convinced lead him astray . |
| 22 | She had always been touched with religion , but as Rory had grown out of boyhood into his teens , she had been content to let him follow down his father 's road to politely concealed indifference . |
| 23 | In a way , I am sad to see him go . |
| 24 | It had been impossible to thwart him under the glare of media attention back at the restaurant , and she was still trying to decide how to deal with the situation if he wanted to come in with her when they reached her apartment — and she knew he would want to . |
| 25 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 26 | Nobody ever brought the matter up with Eve ; and as for Mossy Rooney , who had replaced some of the window frames and the guttering , it would have been pointless asking him for information . |
| 27 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back . |
| 29 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're lucky to catch him . |