Example sentences of "he be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would not have bought it had he been by himself but Maidstone assured him it was the right choice — ‘ Absolutely first rate , dear fellow . ’ |
| 2 | He was indifferent to the house , indeed almost disliked the grander parts of it , preferring the fire in the hall where he could drink his dram in company with his dogs as if he were by the croft hearth of his childhood . |
| 3 | Rourke stood on the deck , tall , unmoving , his brooding , watchful presence enveloping her as though he were by her side . |
| 4 | A real friendly fellow he were by all accounts , bought 'em all drinks . ’ |
| 5 | That sort of failure does not belong to Leonard Cohen , he is by nature an industrious and self-conscious worker , if restless ; and so he stayed . |
| 6 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 7 | Digression won well enough , but the big minus factor against him is the fact that he is by the American stallion , Seattle Slew , whose progeny have tended not to train on over here . |
| 8 | Mayo 's concern is primarily with religious instruction , but he is by no means unique in suggesting that learning was good for a servant . |
| 9 | You ca n't like him , but you must worship , despise and pity him ; he is by turns sublime and ridiculous , a giant and a wimp . |
| 10 | We are not happy with this position in that the Inspector appears to accept that while the formality of recording the transfer of motor vehicles to the directors was not processed through the accounting records , he is by implication accepting that they were recorded , in order to have the directors ' loan accounts overdrawn while ignoring the dividend . |
| 11 | John Major looks set to remain on his perch — although he is by no means secure . |
| 12 | Eubank has got where he is by aggravating public and opponents alike to the point that all they want to see is the object of their dislike brought down with a bump . |
| 13 | He is by no means as feeble as he appears , and the Homunculi will appear from area 65 to fight with him if they have not already been destroyed . |
| 14 | Despite the tough measures of May 10th , the opinion polls say he is by far France 's favourite politician . |
| 15 | The more sales a dealer produces , the more revered he is by the rest . |
| 16 | Like the great Bengali director Satyajit Ray , he is by preference a hands-on , eyes-on film-maker . |
| 17 | But since the act of reading monopolises his attention , he is by definition ‘ dead to the world ’ and therefore unaware of that fact which his behaviour communicates . |
| 18 | He is by no means a total social isolate for there are still occasions when work is carried out in groups of two or three , but contact is more desultory and the closely knit relationships developed out of lengthy periods of working side by side have become somewhat attenuated . |
| 19 | But he is by nature — by his Arab and Oriental culture — irrational . |
| 20 | He is refreshingly determined not to be pushed around by these men any more than he is by the whites . |
| 21 | However , you of all people know how erratic are his movements , moved as he is by guilt and persecution . |
| 22 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 23 | Tamburlaine is in fact a very complex character , far removed from the ‘ barbarous ’ and ‘ incivil ’ man that we are led to believe he is by Mycetes , Cosroe and Meander . |
| 24 | And we must remember that though he is an Englishman , he is not a John Bull , and that though he is a clergyman , he is by no means an " old dear " . |
| 25 | However , it is quite clear that if an employee gives notice in accordance with the contract he is by so doing affirming the existence of the contract and not accepting any perceived repudiation by the employer : see Normalec Ltd v Britton [ 1983 ] FSR 318 . |
| 26 | His second to Party Politics in the Grand National marked him down as a stayer , but he is by no means a slouch over shorter trips . |
| 27 | He did really ought to be audited , and sorry there are other people as well , he is by far the most extreme person , but then there will be other people as well . . |
| 28 | Seattle-born Randy Hansen saw Hendrix live on stage once and only this once , but he 's by no means vaunting the experience as his single turning point , the moment when he decided to devote his playing life to Jimi 's music . |
| 29 | His prediction ( and he 's by no means alone in this ) , of a new Europe with five major financial centres , with London maybe only a scratch above the rest , falls on more reluctant ears . |
| 30 | He too may be trying to mislead Pooh , by sighing deliberately when ( he believes ) he believes he 's by no means out of thistles . |