Example sentences of "[coord] be he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be he alive or be he dead |
| 2 | Instead of striking my face and grieving aloud because my hymen was no longer intact , I wondered , ‘ Is it because he 's an Englishman that he does n't feel proud he 's taken my virginity , or is he frightened that now I 'll try to force him to marry me ? ’ |
| 3 | Or is he to allow her to rest her left forearm on his right and to guide her round in an elegant mazurka — leading her , as it were , from the shoulder so that she always moves just in front of him ? |
| 4 | Or is he to show how difficult he finds them ? |
| 5 | And although the Newsons concede the chicken and egg possibility — do you smack a child because he is delinquent , or is he delinquent because he is smacked ? — they argue that their findings do not support the old belief that sparing the rod spoils the child , but suggest that at the very least , mothers who smack do not succeed in producing non-delinquent children . |
| 6 | Or is he really planning to speed up his reaction to Gorbachev and Eastern Europe ? |
| 7 | Or is he looking to 1992 and re-election ? |
| 8 | Is he genuinely anxious to give the black majority full political rights , or is he simply interested in the survival of Afrikanerdom ? |
| 9 | Or is he secretly selling us to the South ? |
| 10 | ‘ Is he here on the key or is he safe ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Or is he due back at any moment ? |
| 12 | ‘ Or is he just playing safe ? |
| 13 | Did he really exist or is he merely fictitious ? |
| 14 | Does he see you as a partner , or is he already the boss ? |
| 15 | Is he merely discarding a belief or is he grieving a person ? |
| 16 | Or is he speaking about that nation of complacent and indifferent shopkeepers who long for nothing other than a return to the days of imperial hegemony ? |
| 17 | Or is he more likely to waive his right to succession in favour of Prince William ? |
| 18 | Or is he just an urban myth ? |
| 19 | Or is he about to end up as just another RIP — resigned in pain ? |
| 20 | Is he dead or is he not ? ’ |
| 21 | Is he brave , is he suicidal , or is he just plain stupid ? |
| 22 | Is he sympathetic or is he ? |
| 23 | ‘ Elek is a very Persuasive and charming Central European — or is he Hungarian ? — and easy to work with , ’ Minton told her , ‘ except he 's rather evasive about the money . ’ |
| 24 | Is he just , as his barrister , David Whitehouse , acknowledges , a man with an ‘ appalling exterior ’ but no more , or is he , as the charge suggests , a murderer ? |
| 25 | Is he a man with ‘ appalling exterior ’ and no more , or is he , as the charge suggests , a murderer ? |
| 26 | The real question in each such case is ‘ Does the patient really mean what he says or is he merely saying it for a quiet life , to satisfy someone else or because the advice and persuasion to which he has been subjected is such that he can no longer think and decide for himself ? ’ |
| 27 | Or is he saying that these benefits will not be taxable at all ? |
| 28 | Is the Captain still there , or is he somewhere else ? |
| 29 | Is he right or is he wrong ? |
| 30 | Was that showy , Culley wondered , or is he brighter than I think ? |