Example sentences of "be he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must be him just coming in through the side door . |
| 2 | It was the traditional joke , someone always made it , it might as well be him now , although laughter was far from both of them . |
| 3 | That could be him now . |
| 4 | The courts have long insisted that any pecuniary interest disqualifies the decision-maker be he high or low . |
| 5 | If only it had been he instead of Giles who had kissed her in the moonlight . |
| 6 | She told him that she could have stayed onstage for hours , that it had been he most exhilarating experience of her life . |
| 7 | Sir , — If Asil Nadir was a Labour supporting council home dweller , standing accused of defrauding the DSS of £100 , no doubt Peter Lilley would , even as I write , be leading an SAS scratch squad to being him back to justice.DAVID MITCHELL , Woodstock , Pettaugh . |
| 8 | When the psychologist Donald Griffin describes the ability of great tits and chickadees to obtain milk from bottles by ‘ pecking through their shiny coverings with the conscious intention of obtaining food ’ ( 1984 : 35 ) , it is obvious that were he not talking of a ‘ conscious intention ’ , in the normal human acceptation of the phrase , he would fail to arouse the average reader 's curiosity and sympathies . |
| 9 | But , presumably , he would do , he would work very hard were he not a royal person , would he not ? |
| 10 | Hung Feng-Chan danced round the front of the horse , trying to grab the halter , but Li Yuan shouted at him angrily and would have waved him away were he not clinging on dearly with both hands . |
| 11 | Were he not so useful and entertaining on his main subject , Boswell might easily call all his facts into question by such a blatant lie , so blatantly told to curry Establishment favour in London . |
| 12 | be a miracle were he not . |
| 13 | I have no doubt that were he here today he would tell us that he was merely offering the hypothesis as a basis for argument ; but bearing in mind that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is the author of the words that I uttered a moment or two ago in support of the analysis of the historical nature of the government of Scotland , the Government should certainly take some account of this further straw in the wind . |
| 14 | ‘ He straightened one or two things out in my action , worked on my technique a bit , but the most important thing he taught me was to concentrate on every single delivery as if it were he most important in your life . |
| 15 | ‘ If it were he why should he be attacked in the forest ? ’ |
| 16 | England won comfortably enough , as indeed they ought to have done against a team containing 10 players whose ages ranged between 16 and 21 , and one - Madan Lal — who lays claim to being 38 , despite the strong suspicion that ( were he as famous as Nehru ) the Centenary Trophy could just as easily have been named after him . |
| 17 | How old were he then , about thirteen ? |
| 18 | ‘ 'Ow old is 'e now ? ’ |
| 19 | " Is 'e any better ? " |
| 20 | oh I do n't think that is him out of London 's Burning I 'm |
| 21 | And if I 'm not mistaken that 's him outside now . ’ |
| 22 | Or , ‘ Och aye ; that 's him away the Crow Road . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's him again , ’ said Lee . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's him again , ’ I cried . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's him again — the boss . |
| 26 | That 's him out The Bill |
| 27 | Erm , I 've got a feeling it 's him out of Bread but I ca n't think of his name . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's him all right . |
| 29 | That 's him all right . |
| 30 | It 's him all right . |