Example sentences of "he be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where 's God in our life , where has he been and where is he directing us ? |
| 2 | just how lonely had he been when it was n't late and he was n't drunk ? |
| 3 | What could he be after , where could he fit in , if this was true ? |
| 4 | Yet who could he be but Maurice ? |
| 5 | Yet where else could he be but on deck ? |
| 6 | And yet — what kind of a monster would he be if he ran off in the opposite direction ? |
| 7 | How would he be if on one of those Saturday mornings when he 'd hung around the rectory she 'd recognized herself the bitterness beneath his grin ? |
| 8 | Where would he be when those hours came round again ? |
| 9 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 10 | For he is but a bastard to the time |
| 11 | ‘ We all know he is but it 's better we keep it quiet . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm like , ‘ I know who he is but I 've never listened to him . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He is but a little younger than you and is tall for his age , it is said . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He is but heir presumptive . ’ |
| 15 | Er I I 'm sure he is but may not |
| 16 | I know he 's happy where he is but I miss him . |
| 17 | ‘ If what is written about the boy is true — if he is but a fraction as talented as is said … well , it would be a great waste to kill him . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll remember , my lord , ’ said Iago , rising with alacrity from the grass , ‘ that he is but an earl in the making and has no Latin . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He is but an earl … ’ ’ |
| 20 | The one who brings the money , well — ’ Mordecai hesitated — ‘ I do not know what he is but he is not a servant . ’ |
| 21 | STEWART McDonald ca n't remember what age he is but knows he was born in 1947 . |
| 22 | Yes he is but the thing is cars at the moment are so cheap |
| 23 | Yes , I suppose he is but I mean those two those pictures we bought were hundred and twenty and I mean they 're they 're only done by somebody in the village . |
| 24 | I mean he is desperately concerned , I mean he , he loves us all with a concern which just er er er er i is greater than anything we can understand , so concern at the at the slightest er doubt about , I ca n't understand how concerned he is but er I totally relax |
| 25 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 26 | The more he reads , the more certain he is that it 's garbage — and how can you diplomatically conduct a love affair with a poet whose work you view in that light ? |
| 27 | He is that most traditional of stereotypes — the working class gone bad . |
| 28 | It is , then , because he is explaining differences and resemblances as he is that Darwin , in 1838 , needs a theory of purely opportunistic adaptive change in changing conditions , a theory making no developmentalist assumption as to a preferred direction that life will take provided it can go on at all . |
| 29 | Because if he is that we can get that as an educational presentation . |
| 30 | There is doubt as to whether he is that " William " for whom Rolle wrote , at the end of his life , the Latin treatise , Emendatio Vitae , translated into English in the sixteenth century . |