Example sentences of "he be [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former Minister for Culture , he is author of Pour l'Europe , contre Maastricht . |
| 2 | He is cross at having to come here when his time with Enid is so short . |
| 3 | So he 's kind of making a joke about it but there is a serious point there as well . |
| 4 | He 's kind of teasing Nick and saying , I 've got all these degrees . |
| 5 | He 's kind of revealing his inadequacies and failures , is n't he ? |
| 6 | I 've I , when I heard you saying you recognized his voice I thought to myself well perhaps he 's sort of inviting you to er , whatever ! |
| 7 | But I I th I think what we 're talking about is the fact th that Ma you know he 's writing in nineteen twenty seven , that , that he 's not quite sure about the means to an end , he 's sort of writing he , you know , it 's , in a way it 's like writing an essay |
| 8 | I mean its as if he 's sort of living again , you know , coming back to life . |
| 9 | He sticks his tongue a lot when he 's sort of gets excited or he 's doing something . |
| 10 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 11 | Actually , Mick 's in contact with Peter 's brother , also Mick , and he 's sort of taking care of himself now . |
| 12 | quite keen , well it is n't as if I 'm gon na stay for a year , he 's sort of thinking sort of you know going out there to work and I |
| 13 | No idea he 's gone from being a Jewish rabbi last night and he 's he 's sort of gone okay we 'll leap now out of , so he 's leapt out of that one and he 's leapt straight into a fucking little boy 's erm body right , and he 's a mongoloid poor little soul and he 's a downs syndrome kid . |
| 14 | Cos I think he 's sort of realized now that nobody 's particularly impressed by him taking six grammes and twelve Es at once and going oh I took six grammes of and twelve Es at once and I was really fucked . |
| 15 | how Dave , I was saying about Dave and how he 's sort of taken , taken a completely different attitude to things . |
| 16 | Well he 's , he 's sort of blaming , blaming the peasant , you know , the peasant situation on the local landlords . |
| 17 | Like he 's sort of saying that he 's the boss ! |
| 18 | He 's sort of saying , he 's justifying it in , in a very Marxist way , he said this is our duty , what we 're doing is , is , is natural , it 's a process of , of his history you know that there 's nothing we can do avoid this and we should in fact be pleased to see th th this actually taking place , it 's er it 's not a question at all of , of the parents going , peasants going too far , it 's not er a reign of terror at all , erm in fact more than that it , it 's a sort of erm it , it 's not even retribution i it 's a , it 's a course of history . |
| 19 | Erm , think erm so he 's sort of bluffing , okay ? |
| 20 | And he 's sort of picked himself up now , and he 's more , where I 'm getting involved . |
| 21 | I used to think he was so big — and now he 's sort of shrunk in on himself . |
| 22 | When you get out the door he 's sort of going the other way ! |
| 23 | Had er , I was gon na say was n't in the game , I just thought he was kind of harden |
| 24 | He was kind of looking down and twiddling his pen , you know … and I mean I know it sounds stupid , but I did n't mind , I think I knew anyway . |
| 25 | Well he replied he was kind of flopping about . |
| 26 | But this lad make a mistake and he come down to the my sisters house , and my sister and her husband took him in and he 'd fallen and cut his brow , and after he was kind of sobered up he turned down and he said Not a story about this now James . |
| 27 | He was a Gemini , and it was all there when you knew what to look for : the cleverness , the ability to dissemble , the airy arrogance , the wry cynicism , the way he was expert at playing a double game … |
| 28 | For a short period from 1952 to 1954 he was Professor of Conducting at the Warsaw Conservatoire . |
| 29 | Already by the time of Mortmain , however , the problem was less about donations of land to the religious houses than the purchase of land by them , but this too was curtailed more by monastic poverty than by statute ; in fact the king not long after this had to ban houses of which he was patron from selling their endowments . |
| 30 | But you said he was sort of gypsyfied . |