Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] he be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are ; and he 's pretty much the way they 'd constructed him , except that he 's in the corner , bent over and moaning . |
| 2 | Except that he was in no hurry about starting it up . |
| 3 | He had one redeeming feature — his very good nature , except when he was in the boxing ring or after a few whiskies , when everyone gave him a wide berth . |
| 4 | I 've seen him talking to actors in the bar — he 's happy enough then — livelier than when he 's at home . |
| 5 | It is far easier to convince readers of the courage and invention of a youth of fifteen or so when he is foiling the enemy with a clever disguise or a neatly gymnastic escape than when he is in grim and bloody action on board an enemy ship — not only easier , but more in keeping with the romantic excitement proper to adventure-story . |
| 6 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 7 | His feelings for her as his sister were still the same , because although he was across the world he still thought about her every day . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , sir , it 's not so irrelevant because while he was in that curacy there was some sort of row about a boy in the youth club . |
| 9 | Did n't have my tea till while he was on er what 's his name ? |
| 10 | Because when he 's in there his wage packets are like minus fifteen pounds when he 's in there ! |
| 11 | Hawley says : ‘ That 's because when he was at Hunslet Parkside he used to score four or five tries a match and was so quick off the mark that none of his team-mates could keep up with him . ’ |
| 12 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 13 | Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels . |
| 14 | Jo contemplates the great cross on its summit , ‘ the crowning confusion of the great , confused city ; — so golden , so high up , so far out of reach ’ , BH 19 ; its picture , ‘ with a pink dome ’ , on the lid of Peggotty 's work-box , DC 2 ; David and Peggotty visit it , DC 33 ; its ‘ deep bell ’ , DC 47 ; Master Humphrey inspects the cathedral clock , ‘ the great Heart of London ’ , MHC 6 ; John Browdie marvels at the building 's size , NN 39 ; statues of the apostles on its exterior , NN 45 ; Oliver in Fagin 's den as lonely as if he were in the ball on top of the cathedral , OT 18 . |
| 15 | Moments later her father answered the call , his voice coming as clearly as if he were in the same room , and even loudly enough for Silas to hear it . |
| 16 | How do think er Notts are gon na cope without him because it seems as though when he is on form , certainly when he 's at home , he finds scoring goals quite easy to come by ? |
| 17 | If you will not come to us I am resolved to bring Oreste to you by and by so you may see how he progresses which I hope will be as well as when he was under your care . |
| 18 | He feels as though he 's in limbo . |
| 19 | He was pale and his voice trembled as though he was at breaking point . |
| 20 | Though the streets of this city were solid , their buildings numbered and named ; though the avenues were bright enough , even at night , to banish ambiguity , he still felt as though he was on the margins of some unknown land , and in danger of crossing into it without realizing he was even doing so . |
| 21 | Roland felt wakeful and misplaced , as though he was in an art gallery or a surgeon 's waiting-room . |
| 22 | He walked with a teeter , as though he was in the middle of falling on his nose , and brandished a glass lens on a stick as a warning to those in his way that his eyesight was not of the best . |
| 23 | Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision . |
| 24 | It made him look a little as though he were on safari . |
| 25 | He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham . |
| 26 | Rourke stood on the deck , tall , unmoving , his brooding , watchful presence enveloping her as though he were by her side . |
| 27 | Washing facilities are another priority , although in the early stages the patient might be washed in his room , as though he were in hospital . |
| 28 | He felt slightly awkward , as though he were in a strange woman 's room . |
| 29 | He also managed to look as though he were in shock , in pain and in hysterics at one and the same time . |
| 30 | Isabel crouched against the wall , watching him as though he were in truth the wolf her imagination had conjured up , and waiting until her fluttering pulse had steadied before moving again . |