Example sentences of "he be [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook his head quickly as if he were warding off a sneeze and concentrated on Jim , whose affable plasticine face now seemed sharper and more ambitious . |
| 2 | To that end he is setting up a working group to advise on how to make agricultural legislation less heavy and more rational . |
| 3 | The feedback from Alaska is positive and he feels he is taking over a successful concern with a good track record being put in place . |
| 4 | ‘ He is getting on a bit , he is going grey round the whiskers and has a milky white coat . |
| 5 | In this way , the hypnotist is not making me attack against my will , he is conjuring up a set of circumstances in which to attack seems the lesser of two evil courses . |
| 6 | He has an injection of concentrated Vitamin B so he can play that night 's gig at CBGB 's , but he is put on a special diet for three weeks — with strictly no drink . |
| 7 | Yeah I think he 's dressing up a revolution |
| 8 | He 's about my height but he 's filled out a bit since he came here and he has a kind of stoop now which makes him look smaller and older than he is . |
| 9 | Stipe sings for the main part in the first person , though it 's unclear if he 's taking on a character or being genuinely autobiographical for the most part . |
| 10 | And if your victim happens to be conveniently close to the edge of a tall cliff , by the time he 's bounced down a couple of hundred metres on to the rocks , he 'll be in such a mess that the injury from the blow stands a good chance of being overlooked . |
| 11 | Anyway , he sees this fat cunt with some of his mates with some tea — and he 's moved along a bit to the end and he 's pissing down and out through the open bit and its all blowing down on these cunts ’ heads and into their |
| 12 | He 's setting up a drumhead court-martial for tomorrow . ’ |
| 13 | He likes Elland Road , he 's built up a squad that looks like it could develop into a REAL force over the next few years & he 'd be mad to leave for a job where he has a competition every 2 years/a draw 's a bad result/and nobody likes him ! |
| 14 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 15 | He 's bought up a lot of small UK firms in the past , mostly to close them down ; been the subject of a question in the House . |
| 16 | He 's drawn up a route for a walk to the South Pole … of Mars , that is . |
| 17 | Last year , you know , totally rat-arsed. now , he 's putting up a list of all the poems he wants us to look at for next week . |
| 18 | This time he 's a cyclist he 's a racing cyclist and he 's keeping up a steady twenty . |
| 19 | like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about , |
| 20 | ‘ He 's put up a reward for Mahoney 's killer . |
| 21 | ‘ O and Jasus , he 's pickin' up a bit of that fancy Brit language ! ’ pipes Patsy , motioning to me . |
| 22 | ‘ When he 's cleaned up a bit , he can look quite presentable , ’ she laughed . |
| 23 | TROUBLED John Major was accused yesterday of having ‘ little confidence ’ in keeping down interest rates — because he 's taken out a cheap FIXED mortgage . |
| 24 | He 's set up a meeting for tomorrow with his financial boys , and I get the impression he 's very keen , but it 's all down to what he wants for the equity investment and how much I 'm prepared to give him . ’ |
| 25 | He 's set up a fundraising appeal . |
| 26 | Travis asked from the fire , where he was setting up a pan of water . |
| 27 | In taking refuge with a submerged class , which by its toil serviced the spotlessly clean houses of Dutch society , he was laying down a challenge to his privileged friends and relatives . |
| 28 | This was true to the extent that he was acting out a drama of his own inventing , he was the protagonist in a play that was nothing but climaxes and intervals . |
| 29 | The 15-year-old , who can not be named , claimed he was acting out a seduction scene in Home And Away when he asked her : ‘ Do you want sex ? ’ |
| 30 | Corbett slipped and tripped as he was pushed down a flight of steep narrow steps which ran under the keep . |