Example sentences of "he be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will 'e be away long ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Aah 'm afraid 'e 's badly , lass , ’ Annie answered sadly . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , me dad always says 'e 's 'ere today an' gone today , ’ said Linda . |
| 4 | 'E 's dead set on gettin' this gym goin' . ’ |
| 5 | 'E 's always bin the quiet one . |
| 6 | Aah said as 'ow 'e 's only a poor little thing . ’ |
| 7 | They say 'e 's all right ter talk to . |
| 8 | 'E 's as daft as a brush , and twice as wooden as t'shaft . ’ |
| 9 | 'E 's never bin the same since the stables . |
| 10 | 'E 's never complained . ‘ |
| 11 | Suppose 'e 's still here ? |
| 12 | Danny as well if 'e 's still livin' wiv yer . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If by any chance the police pull us in on suspicion they 've got ter 'ave an identification parade , an' if the old watchman recognises any of us we 're done for , unless 'e 's too frightened ter pick us out , an' 'e will be if 'e knows we 're capable o' smackin' 'im around a bit . |
| 14 | ‘ No , well , if 'e was still alive , 'e 'd be 119 next month . ’ |
| 15 | Billy kissed me on the cheek an' I got all silly an' decided 'e was too forward , ’ she said , not divulging to Annie what happened later , when they were walking home and Billy tried to make love to her . |
| 16 | 'E was always up an' down the street . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 'E was all right this evenin' when I bought the paper off 'im . ’ |
| 18 | The inhabitants of the outside world exist for the social actor not as persons whom he knows on an individualised basis , but as social types ( like mechanics or planners ) , or indistinguishable collectivities of persons ( like bureaucrats , Tories or Dinka ) The rules and conditions coming from the outside which in some way affect him are simply taken as given . |
| 19 | After all , as the world sees it he 's a powerful man — a very powerful man — and those sucking up to him are only little men — hsiao jen . |
| 20 | ‘ Fighters who have been in with him are never the same again , ’ he said last week . |
| 21 | Those that are open to him are usually devoted to a purpose , not appropriated to a person : ladies congregate in the morning-room or mistress 's boudoir ; men in the odd room , billiard-room , or library . |
| 22 | And the two men allegedly crucified with him are explicitly described as ‘ Lestai ’ , Zealots . |
| 23 | Even those who opposed the rule of Saddam and who would have welcomed anyone to topple him are now defiant . |
| 24 | He would have been much surpris 'd to know my true Opinion on these matters , but I did not chuse to let him be so much familiar , I kept mum , and smiled and nodded as best I might , keeping my Thoughts to myself . |
| 25 | It was my fault , I should n't have let him be so near . |
| 26 | The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible . |
| 27 | But would the pain of losing him be any the less simply because she 'd managed to hold him at bay ? |
| 28 | He would have to be blind not to have noticed that something in Cora-Beth 's manner towards him had changed ; that the looks she sometimes gave him were no longer open and friendly but questioning , as if she expected , or was hoping for , something more . |
| 29 | When Sir Geoffrey Howe , the deputy prime minister , spoke in the town of Stone to grey-haired party loyalists , five out of the seven questions addressed to him were stingingly hostile . |
| 30 | ‘ Bill says the samples of water you sent him were just that , water . ’ |