Example sentences of "[adv] he be [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Fortunately fame has n't changed Victor Tsoy much he 's still a silent loner .
2 She said , ‘ Basically he 's just a parasitical , sexually frustrated man .
3 So he is already a celebrity in island cricket .
4 So he was either a man of great courage , or a great masochist .
5 come in he was like a little big kid .
6 Anyway he 's actually a good friend he knows I say these sort of things about him but erm it 's good !
7 Already he was mentally a secret agent , privy to hidden knowledge …
8 Cos he 's still he 's still a hologram .
9 Hence he is clearly an obnoxious Monkhousian caricature , that diseased entity , the professional TV personality .
10 So now he 's just an uneducated farm worker , and knows nothing of the world .
11 Black Rozario 's just limping now he 's virtually a passenger and er I would think Forest have got a difficult decision to make a moment or two .
12 Julian used to be a good-looking man somehow clouded , dispersed , by layers of fat and the radiation of pure thought ; now he is simply a cadaverous , eagly , extraordinarily randy man .
13 The cold-bloodedness of this experiment becomes apparent when we discover that chess was not one of Polgar 's great interests ; even now he is only a mediocre player .
14 I could n't see his face any more with its closed , guarded expression which had kept me from going towards him ; now he was just a figure in a doorway , a symbol of home-coming .
15 Even now he was just a short distance away , in the club 's office , while she supervised the stocking of a new promotional lager in the bar .
16 He was the chief architect in charge of the then-burgeoning rapid transit system — and it turns out he was also a painter .
17 Well he 's definitely a cuddly dog is n't he .
18 Well he 's hardly a toy-boy .
19 Yeah well he 's hardly an aging singer is he ?
20 Well he 's now a qualified doctor .
21 Well he was just a struggling young lawyer in Porthmadog .
22 Well he was just a slaughterman then he always used to try and have Frank , another one of our butcher boys , or David or Frank to help him .
23 Well he was quite a good dancer himself
24 Unfortunately he 's still a bit dozy when it comes to starting . ’
25 Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly .
26 ‘ If he 's the Sharpe I think he is , sir , then he 's quite a celebrated soldier .
27 Maybe he 's just an adventurer .
28 Maybe he 's just an invisible presence , or lodged in some mechanical form .
29 Perhaps the old man with the torn shoe was not some desperate down-and-out with fists full of stolen mushrooms ; maybe he was just an ordinary person whose shoes had split that lunchtime , while shopping .
30 His madrigals began to be printed in 1536 when he was already a complete master of the Verdelot type of madrigal , as is demonstrated in ‘ Amor mi fa morire ’ .
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