Example sentences of "he be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had he been witness to these events ? |
| 2 | Will he be Moses — in sight of , but doomed never to enter , the promised land ? |
| 3 | On the contrary he strode in , rubbing his hands and making it clear that he , too , would like a piece of venison , and he being Bodo it was not really possible to refuse him . |
| 4 | He had a gift of mimicry , and when he made a speech as though he were Asquith or Lloyd George it would raise shouts of laughter . |
| 5 | After being promoted to Sergeant-Major , Cottle was summoned before a board to see if he were officer material . |
| 6 | If he were Intelligence he certainly would n't tell me . |
| 7 | He were boss of her . |
| 8 | " " Woodnesse " " , " madness " , itself becomes a theme of the tale , as Nicholas screams " " as he were wood " " ( 3814 ) on being branded , and Alison and Nicholas assert that John was " " wood " " after crashing to the ground in his tub ( 3833 ) . |
| 9 | Granddad did n't use slang because he were Norfolk man . |
| 10 | I know one fellow called Ashworth , he were bit of a coal merchant , I remember him shouting one day across to somebody , ‘ I backed a winner . ’ |
| 11 | Riding , she had noticed how straight he held himself in the saddle , how unruffled he had been when leading his horse across a fast-flowing stream , how easily he brought his mount to jump a wall ; as though he were part of the animal he rode . |
| 12 | Surfers traced themselves back to the Duke as if he were Adam . |
| 13 | On this occasion , he said that if he were Secretary of State he would introduce compulsory competitive tendering only in extremis . |
| 14 | Roger White , senior tax partner at KPMG , says that it 's what he would do if he were Chancellor . |
| 15 | If he were master of the house , no maid would address a senior employee of the master 's by his Christian name . |
| 16 | But Nocker , the part he played in Camel was no Bilko , even though he threw his weight around just as though he were head of the transport squad at Fort Baxter . |
| 17 | Even scholars who think that Kantorowicz read too much meaning into this picture would agree that it represents the emperor as if he were Christ seated in majesty . |
| 18 | He were yourn , you kept saying , though he were n't no more yourn than mine . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When James Torquay died here , and everyone carried on as though he were God incarnate instead of the superannuated useless politician he was . |
| 20 | Equity regarded the distinction as of less importance , in the sense that if a representation were untrue , whether to the knowledge of its maker or not , and were a material factor in inducing another party to enter into a contract with him , that party was entitled to rescind the contract if he were plaintiff , or resist specific performance if he were defendant . |
| 21 | As I said , Gifford Tate and he were buddies , and it was some argument they had about colours . |
| 22 | Equity regarded the distinction as of less importance , in the sense that if a representation were untrue , whether to the knowledge of its maker or not , and were a material factor in inducing another party to enter into a contract with him , that party was entitled to rescind the contract if he were plaintiff , or resist specific performance if he were defendant . |
| 23 | " Yesterday ! " cried Matthew and raised his knife at arm 's length , as if he were St George and had just slaughtered the dragon . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh aye — he were foreman , or a bit later on he were , any road . |
| 25 | ‘ He has a cult following among our supporters , and he deserves it because he is streets ahead of any left-back in our division , ’ enthused Keegan . |
| 26 | He is Deputy Prime Minister , but yesterday sat on the very edge of the platform group . |
| 27 | He is deputy chairman and chief executive of . |
| 28 | He is Deputy Chairman of TSB Group , Chairman of The Medical Research Council , a non-executive Director of Cable & wireless and a Governor and Deputy Chairman of BUPA . |
| 29 | He is deputy chairman of the dominant Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , the party whose vigorous campaign for Slovak independence hastened Czechoslovakia 's partition into separate Czech and Slovak states on 1 January . |
| 30 | He 's as good , too , at handling men as he is horses . ’ |