Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's always bin the quiet one . |
| 2 | 'E 's never bin the same since the stables . |
| 3 | 'E 's never complained . ‘ |
| 4 | The inhabitants of the outside world exist for the social actor not as persons whom he knows on an individualised basis , but as social types ( like mechanics or planners ) , or indistinguishable collectivities of persons ( like bureaucrats , Tories or Dinka ) The rules and conditions coming from the outside which in some way affect him are simply taken as given . |
| 5 | And the two men allegedly crucified with him are explicitly described as ‘ Lestai ’ , Zealots . |
| 6 | With him were also arrested Anna Mutini and Dario Faccio . |
| 7 | The honours that came to him were richly deserved . |
| 8 | All the points of her body that had been pressed against him were suddenly touched with fingers of ice . |
| 9 | His ‘ Caesar ’ hair-cut was brilliantined into kiss-curls framing a face that had nasty carved all over it , and rumour had it that people who crossed him were never seen again . |
| 10 | ‘ My son died like that and the bastards that murdered him were never caught . ’ |
| 11 | Her feelings about him were so mixed , and Dawn 's warning echoed constantly in her mind . |
| 12 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 13 | In other incidents ( i ) Sam Chand , a PAC activist , was among six people assassinated in a bomb explosion in Botswana on April 23 ; ( ii ) his brother Ishmael Chand died in an accident on his way to the funeral ; and ( iii ) the secretary of the PAC internal wing , Benny Alexander , and other PAC members travelling with him were seriously injured in a car crash in the northern Cape on May 3 . |
| 14 | Well do n't you enjoy him being here making you laugh ? |
| 15 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 16 | Normally it would have horrified her to think of him being so cross with her . |
| 17 | No as him being really isolated , you know , in a dark forest or whatever , I do n't know . |
| 18 | But your ability to sympathise with him is powerfully lessened by the fact that this hero is also an immature prig and lying snob , whose principal objection to Helena is her social inferiority . |
| 19 | ‘ Whatever club or staff was used on him is surely gone with the man who used it , but if the poor wretch 's corpse can tell us anything , let us discover it before we move him . ’ |
| 20 | Support for him is slowly growing among influential Tories . |
| 21 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 22 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 23 | The Spirit which rested upon him is now made over to them , along with the mission on which he was engaged ; this too is theirs . |
| 24 | I hardly remember him and what I tell you about him was mostly told to me by my mother . |
| 25 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 26 | Under the tutelage of John Ruskin [ q.v. ] he joined the ‘ Hinksey roadmenders ’ , and through him was later introduced to Octavia Hill [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | The revival of traditional handloom weaving initiated by him was later to win the support of M. K. Gandhi [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | My recollection was that the detective story was one of E. Phillips Oppenheim 's , and that it concerned a horrific murder whereby the victim was , so to speak , liquefied and poured down the sink , so that the ‘ essence ’ of him was thus disposed of . |
| 29 | Although Mondello was convicted of lesser charges , including riot , his acquittal on the murder counts was unanticipated because the evidence against him was generally considered to be stronger than that which had led to Fama 's conviction . |
| 30 | When at last he came to his senses , rather ashamed of his lapse into sensitivity , the floor around him was thickly carpeted with tiny discarded wings , as if with the residue of his own aerial poetic thoughts . |