Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] what he be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he may know exactly what he 's doing — and be doing it for reasons his companions know nothing of , his meaning anything but benevolent . |
| 2 | Do n't know quite what he 's doing , pulling a funny face as usual . |
| 3 | So the man could calculate exactly what he was earning you know , hour by hour if not day by day and week by week . |
| 4 | She liked the tender line of his lip : she could see now what he was thinking . |
| 5 | Endill could not make out what he was shouting but whatever it was it was not very friendly . |
| 6 | In March 1917 when news of the Russian revolution reached Paris , Modi went running to find his writer friend Ilya Ehrenburg , embraced him and began ‘ screeching enthusiastically ’ , so that Ehrenburg could barely make out what he was saying . |
| 7 | Occasionally he talked in his sleep but she could never make out what he was saying . |
| 8 | She could n't make out what he was saying , though ; the door was too thick . |
| 9 | Then I heard Quigley 's low bass , but could n't make out what he was saying . |
| 10 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 11 | We would tread very carefully but we have done this sort of thing before and we would try and make him realise just what he 's doing to himself . ’ |
| 12 | When I did find out what he was thinking , I must say I was surprised . |
| 13 | ‘ How could I find out what he was doing between 1980 and 1982 ? ’ he asked . |