Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us who knew him are shocked and saddened by his death . |
| 2 | In Stag Line Ltd v Tyne Ship Repair Group Ltd ( The Zinnia ) [ 1984 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 211 , 222 Staughton J observed that he was tempted to hold that exclusion clauses in the contract before him were unreasonable because " first … they are in such small print that one can barely read them ; secondly , the draftsmanship is so convoluted and prolix that one almost needs an LLB to understand them " . |
| 3 | Some who heard him were impressed and a few were frightened . |
| 4 | The men behind him were brawny and short-haired , their bare arms reddened by sun and wind and their bare feet wet and muddy . |
| 5 | Hugh Despenser the younger had already petitioned the king on the grounds that the charges against him were erroneous and his condemnation illegal , particularly because so few prelates were present in the parliament which gave judgement . |
| 6 | In the case of lions , not only was a rival male likely to be a close relative , but the costs of physically competing with him were high and the benefits low . |
| 7 | ‘ The reports we received on him were excellent and his contract was also coming to an end . |
| 8 | Mostly about him bein' bad and me watchin' him , like . |
| 9 | I did think of going down to Syon House but remembered Benjamin 's instructions never to approach Johanna without him being present for she dwelt in a twilight world where every man , except Benjamin , was her seducer . |
| 10 | Fellow player Mark Evans adds : ‘ I seem to remember him being solid and reliable in defence — the sort of person he is in life too . ’ |
| 11 | He said Daphne even though she is married now I am willing to forget the bad talks that were going around about him being foolish and wanting her back . |
| 12 | Where the problem arises is in the comparatively rare situation in which an adult patient declines to consent to treatment which in the clinical judgment of those attending him is necessary if irreparable damage is not to be done to his health or , in some cases , if his life is to be saved . |
| 13 | If the conscience indicates to the individual , child or adult , that he must reject a proposed action which his teaching tells him is wrong because it has not been incorporated into the Created God by the process advocated , or has been classified as evil , then that is the action of a healthy conscience . |
| 14 | And the rest of him 's shiny and looks smooth does n't it ? |
| 15 | But now her need of him was desperate and unashamed , and their clandestine meetings were not enough . |
| 16 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 17 | Her love for him was intense and her sense of loss was as great when he was tragically killed in a crash on the way to visit her in New York a matter of months after winning the world middleweight title ; Piaf had persuaded him to make the trip . |
| 18 | The Crown submitted that , even if the defendant 's approach be accepted , the defence could not exclude admissible evidence , even if proper notice of it had not been given , and further argued that Zaidie 's evidence ( confirmed by the defendant ) that an accident was not suggested in the telephone call to him was conclusive when taken with the incontrovertible circumstances of the shooting , thereby suggesting that the ‘ irregularities ’ were not material in the sense that the defence could have profited if they had not occurred . |
| 19 | that the defendant took care to inform himself , from others who were in a position to provide the information , as to whether the deposit would constitute an offence and had no reason to suppose that the information given to him was false or misleading ; |
| 20 | The world about him was white as death . |
| 21 | I might say ‘ Yes he s good and I want him to play for Leeds ’ . |
| 22 | fairclough has always been a good defender ( ex England U21 ) , but he s excellent when given a job , like marking Tony Daley out of the game . |
| 23 | Had he been afraid that things might go too far ? |
| 24 | For the question is , how can he be sure that in observing two similar individuals on two different occasions he is in fact observing the same pair ? |
| 25 | He has been wrong once ; can he be sure that he will not be wrong again ? |
| 26 | Why should n't he be cheerful and silly ? |
| 27 | ‘ Will he be angry if I tell him what you have done ? ’ |
| 28 | Why should he be jealous if there are no gods to be jealous of ? |
| 29 | ‘ And was n't he being romantic when he suggested that we consider you for this job ? |
| 30 | Isabel Lavender felt uneasy , as though he were mocking and trying to get the better of her , as though she were guilty of something . |