Example sentences of "think he be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles had simply thought he was being philanthropic . |
| 2 | The first time a boy kissed her , she thought he was being charitable and told him he did n't have to . |
| 3 | When Mr Roach first made this point in late 1988 , many economists thought he was being too sanguine . |
| 4 | This remark did not go down well with Alcuin , who thought he was being criticized , but we can see what it meant to the late ninth-century writer who reported it . |
| 5 | The problems usually lie not with emptiness , which can be filled , but with the fixed building created by a designer who thought he was being terribly clever but whose design has hindered events ever since . |
| 6 | He said that he thought he was being arrested in connection with the fight . |
| 7 | He was reaching the point where he might be tempted to hurt the boy out of frustration or because he thought he was being tricked in some way . |
| 8 | Then he thought he was being pampered , so he moved into a dirty hovel , ‘ where he lay on straw like a beast ’ . |
| 9 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 10 | He thought he was being attacked so he defended himself . |
| 11 | Frederica thought he was being philistine and was later to learn that he was being simply truthful . |
| 12 | He obviously thought he was being funny , but he was n't . |
| 13 | He thought he was being funny . |
| 14 | Sladen looked at George , who reluctantly sat up a bit straighter , and said : ‘ Until your chap did talk , I imagine Major Maxim thought he was being followed by a bunch of Kremlin cowboys . ’ |
| 15 | I thought he was being considerate with me , not rushing me . |
| 16 | The band was a right dog 's breakfast , with no bass player , an over-enthusiastic banjoist and a jealous pianist who thought he was being diddled out of his fair share of solos . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah well , you may be able to escape soon , ’ said Owen , saying the thing he thought he was being invited to say . |
| 18 | When Adam was 9 , she took the brave decision to remove him from school because she thought he was being held back . |
| 19 | Thought he was being rude no |
| 20 | Even today , she does n't think he was being cruel in doing that . |
| 21 | Well that 's right , yeah , cos then he asked me ages ago did I think he was being selfish , I said yes |
| 22 | says he so I do n't think he was being very practical |
| 23 | You would n't think he was being nice , would you ? |
| 24 | Meanwhile , we also think he 's being urged to further planetisation by some of his lieutenants . |
| 25 | ‘ I think he 's being held against his will somewhere , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Sometimes I think he 's being very clever . |
| 27 | Er er I get er er I think he 's being very clever here so that he 's gon na , if any peasants were to read this which is debatable but |
| 28 | I think he is being favoured , but what does that matter ? |
| 29 | Once in one of these classes one year I had a Jewish student got up and got very upset during such a class as this and stomped out and then slammed the door er which I was rather sorry about because erm I think he was being a little bit erm too sensitive because the person who was giving the paper said anything anyway erm , but warrant that , but he was just offended of the idea that anybody could suggest that Moses was n't Jewish , and of course |