Example sentences of "be he [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ask him what he 's saving for — is he worried about redundancy ? |
| 32 | Is he worried about Kurt ? |
| 33 | Is he worried about his seat or is he living in fairy land ? |
| 34 | ‘ Is he liked by most people ? ’ was my first question . |
| 35 | Is he satisfied with the present arrangements for hot pursuit ? |
| 36 | Is he satisfied with the conduct of that inquiry ? |
| 37 | What is he frightened of ? |
| 38 | Not only is he locked in a cage , but he is also treated as Tamburlaine 's ‘ footstool ’ . |
| 39 | A comment such as this can indicate to a friend that the person is working out their grief very strongly but is still stuck on the question : ‘ Is he gone for ever or is n't he ? ’ |
| 40 | What do you reckon Mr O'Leary 's international prospects are ? how is he rated over there ? |
| 41 | Is he engaged in a desperate election ruse ? |
| 42 | When speaker A in extract ( 1 ) says ‘ Yes , it 's an enormous problem ’ , speaker B does not have trouble understanding the reference of it even though this is not spelt out ; nor is he perplexed by the use of yes followed by a totally different point . |
| 43 | Is he prepared for your feelings for each other to change , from passion to contentment ? |
| 44 | But he 's now an associate fellow at Templeton College in Oxford … so is he viewed as the enemy within . |
| 45 | Does he , is he regarded as a great figure , or |
| 46 | Only in Petrushka is he seen to be the principal player in the action and even then only the actor-dancer 's complete commitment to the whole and complete loyalty to Fokine 's design make him dominate the action . |
| 47 | but , no I went out , no what Pete did is he ran across , ran out the door and then everyone left and that was it , I thought . |
| 48 | I would like to know two things : ( 1 ) What you think of the way I have handled him ? ( 2 ) Is he entitled to a loving relationship with another woman ? |
| 49 | But is he entitled on the basis of his own principle to continue to say : ‘ Theological statements are meaningless ’ ? |
| 50 | ‘ I am therefore issuing my second challenge to Michael Fallon : will he now withdraw his remarks and accept that real cuts are taking place in Darlington 's training provision or is he scared of the truth about training ? ’ |
| 51 | Is he oppressed by the same obscure shame that I felt when I read the letter ? |
| 52 | Is he tired from his hectic battle with the goblins ? |
| 53 | ‘ Is he stationed on Zork ? ’ |
| 54 | Shiva is a bad-tempered chap — not for nothing is he known as ‘ the Destroyer ’ . |
| 55 | Is he constrained by lack of funds ? |
| 56 | Does he think it would be a good thing ; is he committed to setting one up ? |
| 57 | What has happened with him since , since he became more of a big newspaper owner , is he shifted from that and he has been known to support a Labour government in Australia and a Tory government in Britain at the same time and George Bush in the United States while supporting Keating or Bob Hawk in Australia . |
| 58 | Is he sat on it ? |
| 59 | In no way is he shown in a sympathetic light . |
| 60 | ‘ But is he returned to his senses ? |