Example sentences of "be he not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hung Feng-Chan danced round the front of the horse , trying to grab the halter , but Li Yuan shouted at him angrily and would have waved him away were he not clinging on dearly with both hands . |
| 2 | When the psychologist Donald Griffin describes the ability of great tits and chickadees to obtain milk from bottles by ‘ pecking through their shiny coverings with the conscious intention of obtaining food ’ ( 1984 : 35 ) , it is obvious that were he not talking of a ‘ conscious intention ’ , in the normal human acceptation of the phrase , he would fail to arouse the average reader 's curiosity and sympathies . |
| 3 | Well Monsieur Mitterrand has already made it clear that in some important respects I think particularly of defence , erm that , that 's he not going to rush into any changes . |
| 4 | In that situation , why is he not taking the chance to make an announcement on a special economic initiative for Renfrewshire ? |
| 5 | Why why is he not eating it up ? |
| 6 | But with the Paris Angels due to play their first Irish show soon , is he not worried that ‘ Scope 's sleeve ( depicting a cross ) might cause offence ? |
| 7 | Is he not worried about the rising scale of explosions and the rising tide of murders that are taking place ? |
| 8 | But with the Paris Angels due to play their first Irish show soon , is he not worried that ‘ Scope 's sleeve ( depicting a cross ) might cause offence ? |
| 9 | Is he not handing over public assets to a few of his Conservative cronies ? |
| 10 | Is he not seeking to impose another burden on our people ? |
| 11 | Is he not conceding and making clear something that was always true : the 2.5 per cent . |
| 12 | Why is he not restrained — by Simon Peter , for example , who , only a short time later , is not only armed , but also sufficiently violent to attack an attendant of the High Priest ? |
| 13 | Jim said to me last night is er Jimmy h is he not working ? |
| 14 | Can not you see him as well as myself ; Is he not sitting behind me at the bed 's head , to seize upon me for his victim , as soon as I have breathed my last ? ’ |
| 15 | Is he not going home then ? |
| 16 | Or is he not going to school this morning ? |
| 17 | Not only was he not going to eat her , she thought crisply , he would not even manage to unnerve her . |