Example sentences of "he be [verb] the " 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 | Had he been doing the same job when he was in Suffolk ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So who will he be giving the information to ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Suppose he were to encounter the Ryemarks or even Robin Tatian ? |
| 10 | Tenderly he touched her , kissed her lips , not with passion now , but with a delicate reverence , as if he were kissing the fragile bloom of a rare flower . |
| 11 | ‘ Ye-es , ’ said Linley as though he were considering the predicament with sympathy . |
| 12 | He would need to ring for a cab if he were to regain the Party conference in comfort . |
| 13 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | How on earth would it affect his negotiating position if he were to give the net farm income figures on the impact of his own proposals set out in ’ Our Farming Future ’ ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
| 20 | Fagg emitted an interesting glugging sound , rather as if he were repeating the name of the insulted Vietnamese over and over again . |
| 21 | He always rides as if he were winning the St Leger . |
| 22 | If he were to tell the truth it would provoke Newton into the next carriage across the Sands . |
| 23 | As White and John Parrott , who currently occupies third spot , both failed to survive the qualifying rounds in Blackpool last September , Hendry will open up a sizeable lead in the standings if he were to capture the European title for the first time . |
| 24 | Actually , if he were offered the choice of going wherever he liked in the world , he would probably choose Wimbledon . |
| 25 | That is , he will not make the same judgements as he would make if he were viewing the scene itself . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps three , ’ he said mildly at last , as if he were answering the simplest and most natural of questions . |
| 28 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 29 | At the inspectorate he is advising the Home Secretary on policy in four crucial areas : complaints and discipline ; firearms ; public order and counter-terrorism . |
| 30 | He is wearing the familiar Puttnam cardigan look , but is smaller than I expected , like so many who are writ large in the media . |