Example sentences of "he be [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chopper looks more like 'e 's on the run from Dartmoor than a bloody Salvation Army bloke . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 'E was in a fire an' they 've took 'im ter Guy 's ‘ Ospital as a precaution . |
| 3 | P'raps 'e knew 'e was in the wrong by provokin' me in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , if 'e was in the area it 's a foregone conclusion 'e 'd pop in . |
| 5 | Yo you and him were in the upper . |
| 6 | She poured coffee , saying : ‘ He did n't pretend I was wrong about him being on the yacht that evening . ’ |
| 7 | The lads that are on strike well I mean you 'd think it 'd be vice versa him being like a blackleg er that 's er they 'd be agitating but he 's vice versa . |
| 8 | I remember him being in a pub a while back and a woman saying to him , What 's your wife going to do ? |
| 9 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 10 | Doubtless most industrialists in the UK would concur , but where they might fall out with him is on the definition of ‘ robot ’ ( See Box below ) . |
| 11 | Where I differ from him is on the nature of the collection as a whole , which to me seems a collection of poems differing in method and indeed quality , written over a period of years , and having two distinct sequences , to the Friend and to the ‘ Dark Lady ’ . |
| 12 | Wait — an even more cherished memory of him is on the set at Wembley Studios after a particularly gruelling day shooting the ‘ Call to Confirm ’ commercial . |
| 13 | Sure , he is told , steady travel can make a person feel like that for an instant ; yet it is obvious that short-term memory for him is like a labyrinth . |
| 14 | Everyone around him is like a member of the family . |
| 15 | Over the next few months Endill began to hate his schoolwork more and more ; not because it was difficult and boring but because he thought what the teachers taught him was of no use . |
| 16 | We 've been talking to Michael Medleycote from the British Tourist Authority , and one of the points I was making to him was with the recession and also the Gulf war people are very concerned , a ) there 's the cost of flying , but also they 're concerned of course about security . |
| 17 | ‘ We therefore conclude that there was de facto , albeit voidable contract , between the owners and Ballay ; that it was by virtue of that contract that Ballay took possession of the goods ; that accordingly the transfer of the goods to him was with the consent and express authority of the owner and that accordingly there was no lack of authorisation and no appropriation . |
| 18 | We therefore conclude that there was a de facto , albeit voidable contract , between the owners and Ballay ; that it was by virtue of that contract that Ballay took possession of the goods ; that accordingly the transfer of the goods to him was with the consent and express authority of the owner and that accordingly there was no lack of authorisation and no appropriation . |
| 19 | Confucius or Conrad or whatever you call him was on the doorstep . |
| 20 | So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme . |
| 21 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 22 | The next time I met him was under an awning in the Campo San Polo in Venice , where he was quietly discoursing to a bunch of very young German anarcho-punks . |
| 23 | Boo Radley got himself into trouble and although the punishment inflicted on him was in no way severe or a major disgrace , his father decided that it would embarrass the family to have his son be sent away to the school that the punishment intended . |
| 24 | But then a man like him was in no need of miracles . |
| 25 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 26 | ‘ Just a few minutes alone with him was like a tonic . |
| 27 | The strange relationship she had with him was like the painting , she thought — nothing quite what it appeared , unveiling new facets each time she considered it . |
| 28 | Conversely , a foreign national resident abroad would find that the transaction with him was within the Act if , but only if , he was physically present in this country at the time of the transaction . |
| 29 | It made them all laugh when Peter said that come to that , what he did with him was against the law since Jay was not yet twenty-one . |
| 30 | He had not given his name in Russian and the bunk that was allocated to him was against the wall at the furthest stretch from the narrow band of heat that the boiler might service . |