Example sentences of "he be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | he been like ? |
| 2 | Resenence Jeopardy still expected him to work hard , was still friendly and attentive , but had n't he been like that the day before ? |
| 3 | ‘ How long has he been like this ? ’ |
| 4 | Anyone I see , even just some boy in the Tube , some man , I think what would he be like in bed . |
| 5 | " What will he be like ? " |
| 6 | Tried him with anything the other day when he were like this . |
| 7 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 8 | Well what , I 'll never forget this chap do up on Avenue Road he were like that ! |
| 9 | He is like the poet Ausonius , alas — that Silver Age abstainer from the world and connoisseur of oysters . |
| 10 | Inside he is like light is , the way light behaves . |
| 11 | He is like a wolf ! |
| 12 | ‘ The whole world listens to him , he is like God for us now , ’ said one taxi driver . |
| 13 | At other moments , he is like some kind of Jewish magus , all too liberated . |
| 14 | That is why I want to find out , at least as well as I can by watching him , what he is like … . |
| 15 | ‘ He is like the weather forecast , that one . |
| 16 | He is like a poor man lifted into a limitless inheritance . |
| 17 | An Arabic poet compares purposeless human qualities with kushooth — a dodder species from which the Latin Cuscuta is possibly derived — with the line : ‘ He is like the kushooth ; for he has neither root , leaves , fragrance , shade of fluit ’ . |
| 18 | He is like a frightened rabbit staring into the headlights of the Tory juggernaut — he does n't know what to do about it , so he claims it 's unstoppable . |
| 19 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ The game will give us a decent idea of what he is like . ’ |
| 20 | Frieda Lawrence said of her husband : ‘ I must say he is like the English in the bulldog quality of hanging on . |
| 21 | ‘ But the way he is behaving he is like a coward . |
| 22 | He is like the filter used in film-making to reverse daylight and night effects , a technique known as ‘ day for night ’ . |
| 23 | In this sense he is like Mrs Ghandi , who as India 's prime minister ordered the attack on the Sikh Golden Temple and was later murdered by her Sikh bodyguard : having desecrated the holiest places of a fierce and unforgiving religion , Saddam 's life is potentially in danger from every Shiite he comes into contact with . |
| 24 | He is like a runner in the 5000 metres who walks all the way to the bell and then tries to make up lost time by running the last lap like a 100 metre sprint finalist — not a good technique , as you can imagine . |
| 25 | So then the teachers think if he is like that he 's not worth the trouble . |
| 26 | He is like a trapped animal now . |
| 27 | He is like an ember — one glow |
| 28 | He is like a man |
| 29 | He is like his father , but , as I said before , he is kind . ’ |
| 30 | He is like a naked light . |