Example sentences of "he be behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , she er we went to the river shore , you know the bridge near o on our part of the road and he were behind the trees and er I was wo wo , it were one of his sons who were with us , you know , Tommy and he was shouting |
| 2 | ‘ They belong to your servant Jacob ; they are a present sent to my lord Esau ; and moreover he is behind us . ’ |
| 3 | The giants are experts on working the crowd up into ‘ He 's behind you ! ’ pantomime scenarios and on making the physical manoeuvres look and sound bruising . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's behind us , heading north , ’ said Moxon 's colleague . |
| 5 | And I know he 's behind your meetings with that girl . |
| 6 | You see Pete Townshend now and he 's behind a screen when he 's onstage . |
| 7 | He 's behind the times . |
| 8 | The other thing is if we 're successful with Atkins if he 's behind the bill the MPs are unlikely to talk it out . |
| 9 | Now he 's behind bars at a Scottish naval base . |
| 10 | He 's behind Schumacker . |
| 11 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 12 | Then he was behind me , showing me a good place to take a photograph , using his whistle as the camera . |
| 13 | Hence it was that in many subjects he was behind the knowledge of the day . |
| 14 | I got such a shock I forgot he was behind the glass and thought he was going to shove his face right into mine . |
| 15 | He was behind me in the queue . |
| 16 | He was behind most of the attacks that usually floundered at the hands , feet or body of Lincoln 's inspired keeper Ian Bowling — who played for most of the game with a suspected smashed ankle . |
| 17 | His first race was at Oulton Park in 1962 when he was behind the wheel of a Porsche . |
| 18 | I wondered what kind of progress Tim Wilson was making and how far he was behind Laura Channing . |
| 19 | Why did n't he just stay where he was behind the vehi Everyone else was taking their time . |
| 20 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 21 | The window blinds were down and he had a feeling that he was behind the scenes in a theatre . |
| 22 | This time the wily Belgian was not on board and it was never proved that he was behind this particular incident . |
| 23 | He was behind that very nasty business of the Indian Ocean Bank — that was the nearest he got to coming unstuck , but the thing was so complicated with nominees in the Caribbean and nominees of other nominees in Hong Kong that he got away with it . |
| 24 | What made you suspect that he was behind it ? ’ |
| 25 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 26 | Then the one that runs the quarry to us , he 's well he 's worse only he was behind it in a way , he had he was the one with the brains , he was the one that new how to get the men to work for nothing . |
| 27 | He was behind ee he had the brains , and was carrying it out for him , cos erm this erm I du n no if you know him eh , he runs this quarry to us up here . |
| 28 | Aye but he was behind the this cos they 're all in the in the same boat you know , they 're all families , family affair is n't it . |
| 29 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |
| 30 | He was behind all this , wheeling and dealing , playing God ! |