Example sentences of "[be] [conj] he be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be that he was speaking the truth , but before she could answer footsteps sounded along the passage , and they both faced the door as his mother came reluctantly in . |
| 2 | You know , it 's got a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension schemes , papers are gon na flood through the door and annual reports and that sort of thing and it seems to me that all of Goods th the way that this , this pension regulator is deemed to act is that he 's expecting the auditors and the actuaries to whistle blow and |
| 3 | ‘ Because my impression is that he 's using the privacy of the consulting room to hide something . |
| 4 | But I think the thing that runs through the whole collection and that makes Doisneau a remarkable photographer , is that he 's photographed the same locality and this is the locality where he still lives , really from the early 30s right through to the present . |
| 5 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 6 | What I suspect is that he was inspecting the binding and moved the candle to study it more closely to see if there was a gap between the cover and its backing : underneath the candle flame the writing must have appeared . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah that 's cos he was using the allen key . |
| 8 | The fact was that he was enjoying the experience . |
| 9 | It was as he was shepherding the tail end out that the headmaster made a belated appearance . |