Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , he WAS wanted , he supports Leeds , he s lived in Leeds all his life , why else would he want to move if not for financial reasons ? ? ? |
| 2 | Anyways , its quite funny — Souness has been after all our midfielders at some stage ( except Strach AFAIK ) , now he s moving onto our reserves . |
| 3 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 4 | There were pilots getting their aircraft away on two engines , with armourers hanging on underneath checking the bombs , incendiaries blazing and HE S exploding in all directions . |
| 5 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 6 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 7 | Well , maybe they were n't his exact words , but I expect he would have come up with something like that had he been asked for his thoughts on Carter 's ‘ Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ . |
| 8 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
| 9 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 10 | Had he been interned until the end of the war in Tost or one of the other civilian camps , he would probably have faced no charges . |
| 11 | Had he been charged with the more serious offence of causing death by reckless driving , he would have faced a Crown court and a jail sentence of up to five years . |
| 12 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 13 | Okay erm If he 's done two hundred miles , how long has he been riding for ? |
| 14 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 15 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 16 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 17 | What had he been thinking about ? |
| 18 | In April 1816 , musing after John Brownrigg 's death , he says he might have thought differently of him had he been born in Ambleside , ‘ the moral code of the people here not being like that of many other places . ’ |
| 19 | Not , that is , more of a Chinaman : had he been born in Peking , no doubt he would have disappointed patriots there too . |
| 20 | Why , Mr M wanted to know , had he been sent to Sanday at all ? |
| 21 | Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ? |
| 22 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |
| 23 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 24 | Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 25 | Or had he been immersed in his Black Arts , calling up a demon from hell in some lonely wood or deserted copse ? |
| 26 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 27 | ‘ How long has he been talking to you like that ? ’ |
| 28 | So whom had he been talking to ? |
| 29 | ‘ Had he been working on it ? |
| 30 | Has he been working for a long time ? |