Example sentences of "he be [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's him been in this post for twelve years ? |
| 2 | Among his successors as Duke of Aquitaine only Richard is known to have written verse and certainly neither of the two surviving poems attributed to him is of this quality . |
| 3 | Will he be at this meeting tonight ? ’ |
| 4 | He were in this morning he 's er had summat to eat , well he 's made it obvious . |
| 5 | King of the Road , he is of this stretch . |
| 6 | Oh I do n't think he is at this rate na , Jonathan ! |
| 7 | I appeal to the Minister : the man should not be allowed to return to his unit ; he should remain where he is at this moment . |
| 8 | Fairclough ( as Ive said on numerous occasions ) is excellent when given a job to do … as he is in this formation . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think he 's on this wavelength , ’ she said , ‘ I had thought of having a holiday in one of the Martello towers if I do n't see him soon . ’ |
| 10 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 11 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 12 | Well it , it shows come on I 'm gon na hit the brake , he 's got a chuffing accelerator pedal , a clutch and a bloody brake pedal there and he 's banging like this and it 's brake 's not working prop it 's , it 's funny , but there was a bloody tent there as well er where the Charlie Sheen is like an indian , and he 's in this tent and this bloke calls to thingybob and he presses this bloody doorbell on it on this tent , it 's funny , I tell you it is funny when you wa er when you actually watch it . |
| 13 | It 's thanks to you that he 's in this mess right now . |
| 14 | It 's my fault he 's in this mess . |
| 15 | He 's in this room . |
| 16 | There is no means of knowing how near to the regularised life of Thurgarton he was at this date . |
| 17 | He was at this time an exponent of the benefits of Anglo-French peace and in the Philobiblon , attributed to him and written in 1344–5 , one chapter was entitled ‘ the Complaint of Books against Wars ’ . |
| 18 | He was at this time already suffering from an ailment from which he and his friends would suffer until the end of his life — piles . |
| 19 | He was at this time , a terrible gossip . |
| 20 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 21 | He was at this stage in his life too disinclined to indulge in retrospection and perhaps too self-absorbed to consider his mother 's life and death in the context of his own life . |
| 22 | He spoke with the fervour of discovery , unaware it seems that he was by this date , imperially speaking , reinventing the wheel . |
| 23 | He was by this point a very rich financier ; he was elected alderman in 1649 and sheriff in 1651 and 1652 . |
| 24 | And he was in this mood when disaster struck . |
| 25 | But when he was in this mood , fear came . |
| 26 | With a mental shrug she tried to ensure she kept up , knowing that nothing irritated him more than to be kept waiting even a second when he was in this mood . |
| 27 | When he was in this mood , it was mysteriously hard to resist Guy Sterne . |
| 28 | Richard was small and skinny for his age , part of the reason he was in this mess . |
| 29 | Well aware that it was a game to Richard — a pretence with which to pass the empty hours — and that it was to Anne , rather than Joan , he was in this instance referring , such comments never failed to annoy Edward — as Richard was well aware . |
| 30 | They had not told him they were not going back to Antibes and she saw no point in trying to talk to him about Maurin or Sabine Jourdain or Barbara Coleman while he was in this state . |