Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [be] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modest he may be but soft he is not . |
| 2 | ‘ Prime minister ’ he may be but Mr Hikmatyar can not get into Kabul . |
| 3 | Sir Denis he may be but I fancy the measures being poured in the big rooms have been even more liberal ( small ‘ l ’ , of course ) than before . |
| 4 | Hard as nails he may be but do n't let anyone tell you Hank has n't got a sense of humour . |
| 5 | ‘ 'Nice ’ he may be but his taste for Brand 's A1 Sauce — or is it HP ? ’ — Mervyn examined the page more closely — ‘ does seem to be excessive . |
| 6 | A Scottish-born CA and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants he may be but , apart from a brief initial period in a practising firm and then Lothian Regional Council , before coming to Provincial three years ago he had fairly rapidly made a successful impact in senior general management in retail banking , with TSB in Scotland . |
| 7 | Hard as nails he may be but do n't let anyone tell you Hank has n't got a sense of humour . |
| 8 | and he may be and careless and just throws his clothes down everywhere but then his mind 's in the right place . |
| 9 | Wycliffe brooded ; he felt restless and frustrated , unable to make up his mind where he should be or what he should be doing . |
| 10 | This can mean that a subscriber can be charged far more than he should be and I gather that some regions even add in the hours that trainee engineers work as well . |
| 11 | If he wanted to act like an uncivilized person-which is what he must be and you could see it clearer all the time-then let him alone . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's not as aggressive as he might be but that could come , and he has more skill and speed than someone like John Fashanu , who plays an intimidating game . |
| 13 | Over seventy he might be but he had retained all his faculties . |
| 14 | I do n't know whether he 's going to that , he might be but this was , this , he was up sort of seeing , meeting all the Labour Party candidates for the north west . |
| 15 | He could be but not the sort of merchant you 're thinking of there were lots of merchants in those days those merchants who build up places like they were Greek merchants , in fact they were called merchant venturers were n't they ? |
| 16 | Thought he 'd be but he wasn't. kids . |
| 17 | But he had not guessed he would be and had postponed his visit till term ended in June . |
| 18 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 19 | she knew exactly where he would be and what time he 'd be back ! |
| 20 | ‘ Sir , even when he is not angry you do not know his habits , how filthy he can be and expect me — ’ |
| 21 | He forgets how annoying he can be and you know he swings the other way . |