Example sentences of "he be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is about the inn all day , speaks broken English , and in acknowledgment of any kindness will show the suppleness of his old bones by standing on his head for a little time . |
| 2 | Otherwise , he 's been happy knocking over inferior opposition and now people wonder how serious he is about the whole thing . |
| 3 | I saw how protective he is about her , and how could he protect her better than by being married to her . |
| 4 | Linguists not working within Labov 's general framework are often less careful than he is about candid recording . |
| 5 | He is about parcels he may have been given . |
| 6 | With 5 minutes to go Tilson who had completely knackered Strachan on the wing crossed a beautiful ball to Pat Fenlon who beat both Newsome and Wetherall in the air even though he is about 5'7 ’ . |
| 7 | erm Everybody was so enthusiastic about what they were doing and erm people like David Bellamy , he gets very excited on television programmes but talking to him as we were , you could see how sincere he is about everything that he does and how dedicated to the cause . |
| 8 | He 's about as funny as diptheria . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He 's about your mark , ’ Michael sneered . |
| 10 | He 's about as likely to have sympathy for the devil as he is to have satisfaction . |
| 11 | While Almond aims for tacky , spunky cabaret rock , he 's about as subversive as Come Dancing . |
| 12 | He 's about my height but he 's filled out a bit since he came here and he has a kind of stoop now which makes him look smaller and older than he is . |
| 13 | " He 's about your age . " |
| 14 | " Well , he 's about the same , Wes . |
| 15 | And at a time when the Ingard lot are pressed for money , he 's about the last person you 'd have thought they 'd go to any trouble over . |
| 16 | I had two when I first came here , but erm , one came as a stray but this one I 've got is a lovely little er ginger and white one he 's , he 's about somewhere but he 's just gone out I should imagine been on the si sitting on the sideboard |
| 17 | Hoddle 's refusal to deny that he 's about leave has only heightened the suspicion that he is . |
| 18 | I , he 's about the |
| 19 | Mm , see him now , he 's about , well no no , not as tall as me , but built like a brick shithouse and he brought forward , brought forward for his rugby team , you know , and he 's erm , oh bloody hell , yes oh yeah , he 's very good at javelin , the old javelin , sorry . |
| 20 | there 's a there 's a in there out the back side and he 's about that much for the our , our top of our roof . |
| 21 | He 's about the . |
| 22 | Oh he 's about oh he 's with it is he ? |
| 23 | He 's about the same age as |
| 24 | he 's about , I suppose he 's about my height probably slightly slimmer |
| 25 | he 's about , I suppose he 's about my height probably slightly slimmer |
| 26 | And er I said to her well and er she said that she was embarrassed , I think he 's about the |
| 27 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 28 | He was about Anton 's own age , ten or eleven ; and still , as were they all , all the boys up on the wall , dressed in shorts and sandshoes . |
| 29 | Darren White posed no threat since he was about as athletic as me , but James Kirkby ( better known as ‘ Jaz ’ ) was another matter . |
| 30 | He considered that Liza was behaving disgracefully , maintained that Harriet was encouraging her daughter in what he called ‘ selfish laziness ’ and that , sorry as he was about the death of John Carrow , surely Harriet had not long lost her own husband and it was up to Liza to give her more support . |