Example sentences of "he be [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has he been in all day ? |
| 2 | Has he been in all day ? |
| 3 | Deep gashes of black under the eyes , skin the colour of ashes , a slight wobbliness to his movements , His speech is fastidious , precise in a way that would seem pompous if he were at all ebullient ; but with his small , gave voice — sometimes withering , always withered — the impression is of a wary distrust of words and the ways they can be misconstrued . |
| 4 | Er , he were in all day yesterday and , then he disappeared this morning . |
| 5 | A real friendly fellow he were by all accounts , bought 'em all drinks . ’ |
| 6 | Once he is in the grip of a real temper tantrum , it is useless to try punishing him , since he is beyond all reason , unable to understand what he is doing or what you are saying . |
| 7 | Although much of his historical writing depended on oral testimony , he is of all ancient historians the one who most frequently cites the authors and documents that he has consulted . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is right , and for once he is on all fours with British Rail . |
| 9 | Gandhi actually acknowledges this fact ; he is above all a practical idealist . |
| 10 | For he is above all concerned to deny that the point of the universe is somehow to serve human interests . |
| 11 | He is always older than the heroine , usually in his early or mid-30s , rich , successful in the vocation of his own choice … he is above all virile . |
| 12 | But then I do n't suppose that would be enough for you , and after all this is Boy 's story mostly , he is after all in a proper sense my hero , and you have to have this Boy clearly in your mind before we can proceed . |
| 13 | He is after all manager , and can not wish for a scandal … ’ |
| 14 | One risk was that if they did n't act there was a gunman on the loose , desperate , he 's after all escaped from prison , possibly in a confined space in a block of flats with a vantage point . |
| 15 | He 's in all the typical things a young man who 's too quick does , that 's fly off the road all the time , but that 's part of the normal learning curve , and I think that he 'll be trouble for every team that does n't have him in their actual car at the time . |
| 16 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 17 | Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity . |
| 18 | There he was above all an observer of life , carrying on — forgive the pun those observations into the characters he played . |
| 19 | I do n't think he was at all well known abroad but in Austria he was famous for his wit . |
| 20 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 21 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 22 | He was at all times placid , unruffled , cool , calm and collected . |
| 23 | He was at all times happy , said his lordship , to give his assent to any measure that could relieve the unfortunate debtor without giving an opportunity to the adulterer , the swindler etc. to take advantage of the same law — . |
| 24 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 25 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 26 | Alexandra took her father over every inch of her domain and he nodded at her enthusiasm , but if he was at all impressed by what she did , what she planned , he gave no sign . |
| 27 | Just because he knew about her it did not mean he was at all reliable . |
| 28 | When the young man was twenty he discovered that his mother had been boasting about how wonderful he was to all her friends . |
| 29 | Most others insist that the young Richard got his looks from his mother , Edith , a fair-haired girl , taller by far than Dic , a sweet beauty , ‘ a very strong woman ’ , to whom her husband was absolutely faithful and utterly irresponsible : as he was to all his family . |
| 30 | He 's not the same person he was before all that . |