Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could have throttled Geoffrey , wriggling in where he was n't wanted . |
| 2 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 3 | Schisgal was terrific , perhaps because he was so beaten into the ground by that time , I do n't know . |
| 4 | He could n't hold out much longer if only because he was n't getting any sleep . |
| 5 | that was only because he was like transferred there I thought that |
| 6 | In fact , it was only because he was chronically mean that she had lasted this long . |
| 7 | But , ’ I jumped in as he was about to interrupt , ‘ I think I can do something for you . ’ |
| 8 | He stored it up — the mind 's ability to store is inexhaustible — and wrote it down when he was finally released . |
| 9 | As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble . |
| 10 | If you think of the environment Gerry Conlon was in when he was wrongfully arrested — that world of squats and lodging houses and casual labour — that 's the world I knew when I was younger . |
| 11 | cos dad 's gon na be working now till about three anyway so he 's not gon na be able to take you . |
| 12 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 13 | Not if he 's formally taken off the case . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The greatest thing is telling him there is no point going to his mainstream school any longer if he is not going to get around and that he 'll have to go to a special school — at which point he explodes in terror and starts to make special efforts . |
| 15 | The panda ran away because he was n't getting enough ! |
| 16 | He thought perhaps all lying would now be over because he was about to rush along the highway to success , fame and fortune . |
| 17 | He chose not to , not because he was n't enjoying it , he loved it , but he chose not to because he knew he would lose and part of the reason knew he would lose was because he sacked Douglas MacArthur . |
| 18 | I knew before I went that I would cry that day , but I thought it would be because he was standing in front of me , not because he was n't standing in front of me . |
| 19 | I 'd be working away while he was just sitting . |
| 20 | Philip Miller married a Miss Kennet , probably not before he was well established at Chelsea . |
| 21 | The only question marks hang over the slightly corny lyrical content of some of his compositions and over whether he 's maybe working a little too closely to the Gavin Friday scheme of things . |
| 22 | A month later , just before he was about to set off on his journey ‘ into the interior by way of Namoi , Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin in Hobart of his progress so far : ‘ After spending a fortnight in the lowland brushes I proceeded to the upper districts and the Liverpool ranges whence I have just returned having made several discoveries of new species both of Birds and Quadrupeds , of the latter I believe I have two new kinds of Kangaroo . ’ |
| 23 | He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend . |
| 24 | He would have taken her to make it his own , just as he is now taking you . ’ |
| 25 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 26 | Just as he is about to follow MR . |
| 27 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 28 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |
| 29 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 30 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is a regular human being with knobs on , midway through our interview , midway through an answer , just as he 's about to take a swig of his double decaff coffee with lemon on the side , he announces that he has to go to the toilet . |