Example sentences of "[verb] he be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't know he 's being filmed . |
| 2 | Is he gon na I expect he is is n't he ? |
| 3 | OLYMPIC archery hero Simon Terry returned to Britain yesterday — to find he is being clobbered by his country . |
| 4 | Now that the transition into a string of planets is well-established , we suspect Scott McNealy is wearying of playing the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of chief executive of parent company Sun Microsystems Inc and president of the company 's systems planet Sun Microsystems Computer Corp , having to go to both sets of meetings and deal with other planets as an equal who is also their boss , and he could well be on the look-out for a president for the hardware unit ; some say he 's being urged to split the company up even further by some of his lieutenants . |
| 5 | If Coventry lad Jimmy McGee ever again thinks of stepping out of his class , the best advice anybody can give him is be sure to step down . |
| 6 | It was also essential that he believed he was being cured , because of the need he would face soon for what I can only call ‘ self-help ’ . |
| 7 | On hearing the doorbell , the Commander 's reaction was affected by the events of the day and the matter they had just been so emotionally discussing : irrationally , he believed he was being visited by the police . |
| 8 | At one stage he believed he was being attacked and he over-reacted . |
| 9 | You said he was in a distressed frame of mind , so he probably would n't have noticed he was being followed . |
| 10 | And given the power he now wields , he says he 's being careful not to blow it . |
| 11 | Lola kept track of patients whose personalities were as variable as the weather ( ‘ One minute Paul says he does not want his wife any more and the next he has changed his mind ’ ) , she listened to their grievances ( ‘ Josef thinks he is fit to work and look after himself ; says he is being kept a prisoner … but he is very confused and deluded ’ ) and even mediated between doctors ( ‘ Dr Freymann said … it must be a genuine case of epilepsy … but … |
| 12 | He no it 's summat entirely different , cos I says he were being sarcastic and keep your mouth shut if you ca n't speak normal . |
| 13 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 14 | This , incidentally , was something of a retreat by Bukharin from his stance of 1920 , but by the time the present text was written he was being far more cautious ; the exuberance of ‘ war communism ’ had run its course . |
| 15 | He said that if the lawyer had felt he was being unfair to him he could appeal to another court . |
| 16 | ‘ At least then the drummer feels he 's done something ; it 's using technology to help him , rather than making him feel he 's being replaced . ’ |
| 17 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 18 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
| 19 | For days afterwards , he was unable to make a telephone call without imagining he was being laughed at on the other end of the line . |
| 20 | Told he was being arrested , he just smirked : ‘ You guys have been watching too much TV . ’ |
| 21 | United 's youth development officer was called in by Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan on Friday and told he was being fired . |
| 22 | Charles had simply thought he was being philanthropic . |
| 23 | Since the meal had come entirely from tins , she could hardly believe he was being sincere , but she merely smiled and nodded her thanks . |
| 24 | Then he would remember he was being watched by Morris , and he would frown , and stuff his finger into his left ear to keep out the noise of the typewriter . |
| 25 | By now Fedorov must surely suspect he was being followed , for the deserted streets were silent save for the rattle of carriage wheels and jangling harness . |
| 26 | Went out to see the puppet , , one good thing at least it shows he 's being quite a good boy not sure about the school |
| 27 | Youngman was given a breath test which proved positive and was told he was being arrested , but he started walking towards a public house . |
| 28 | He said that the defendant had never been told he was being entrusted with secrets , there was no express covenant covering business secrets and the defendant never knew that he must not talk about his work outside his employment . |
| 29 | She was anxious to keep a distance between them , though there was no reason why Luke should guess he was being followed , much less who was following . |
| 30 | You know he 's is n't he , has n't he got one of his own up in or something ? |