Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E told me 'e might be late an' not ter wait up , ’ Sadie went on . |
| 2 | ‘ No , well , if 'e was still alive , 'e 'd be 119 next month . ’ |
| 3 | But after a while he began to accept that what I told him must be true . |
| 4 | An old bachelor like him must be lonely . |
| 5 | Conversation with him could be exciting and enjoyable , but one was uneasily aware of potential explosions . |
| 6 | The don in him could be satisfied and its conscience allayed by having intellectually broken into the truth . |
| 7 | If he agreed , the threat of proceedings against him would be unnecessary . |
| 8 | To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after . |
| 9 | No matter who she met in the future , that walk in the lemon-scented night with him would be one part of her she would never share with anyone . |
| 10 | The premium rate suggested by him would be equivalent to an amount in excess of £1 billion ( $1.95 billion ) for a syndicate with a capacity of £41m ; this in addition to the losses already paid and reserved . |
| 11 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 12 | She flattered herself this was done discreetly , and was noticed by no-one , though the yearning in her look as she gazed at him would be obvious to a child of five , and the staff made frequent jokes about her loving him with a love that made his life a burden . |
| 13 | Robyn glanced down at the chopping-board ; cooking for him would be bad enough , but others ? |
| 14 | Rebirth for him would be fatal , in the word of a later poem ‘ like Death , our death ’ . |
| 15 | Common sense suggests that a person who submits to an act only because he believes that otherwise he will be over-powered and have it done to him anyway does not consent in law , even though the force necessary to overpower him will be small and non-injurious . ’ |
| 16 | But perhaps the picture that will remain in the minds of the few now here who knew him will be that of a long , thin figure folded into the driving seat of a small , fast , bright red sports car , his hair billowing wildly , his eyes crinkling through large , horn-rimmed spectacles and his mouth twisted into a mocking , sardonic grin . |
| 17 | This ‘ last chance ’ produced ‘ a wonderful change , both in the brightness and cleanliness of Karl ’ , and his supervisor had ‘ the feeling that the chance given to him will be more than repaid ’ . |
| 18 | The overall leader of the various groups , ‘ George ’ has been forced to leave the country , and replacing him will be difficult . |
| 19 | ‘ I am simply Mr Nadirpur 's security adviser , which is one reason why any threat against him will be counterproductive . |
| 20 | He may be 37 . |
| 21 | He may be 37 . |
| 22 | ‘ He may be safer there than some of us here . ’ |
| 23 | He may be dangerous . |
| 24 | He may be right . |
| 25 | He may be right that the centre of gravity among that supposedly central group of Britons , the skilled workers , or C2s , has shifted back in favour of higher state spending . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , he may be right . |
| 27 | For what it is worth , I think he may be right because it is possible to find objects in space from remembered information . |
| 28 | He may be right , but nobody else has a chance to provide any input into the decisions which affect everybody in F1 . ’ |
| 29 | He may be right , but one or two large societies do look weaker in terms of bad debt experience and capital strength than the rest of the pack . |
| 30 | He may be right . |