Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do nt even create his goals — he s just got that luck/knack of being in the right place for deflections etc . |
| 2 | That s past him hopefully , and he s also playing with more confidence … |
| 3 | He s always encouraging the team . |
| 4 | He s 37 for christs sake and yet he s always getting back to defend . |
| 5 | Keepers can have the one off season … to be fair this season AFAIK he s only made the one ‘ howler ’ . |
| 6 | Pete gave another look over the Princess , and wondered what Ted would have thought of the berthing arrangements had he been here to see them . |
| 7 | Had he been completely misreading her intentions ? |
| 8 | Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place ? |
| 9 | He had asked her only for what he needed , though there must be many blunter questions he could have put to her had he been so minded . |
| 10 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 July 1992 M. appealed on the ground that at no time had he been personally served with either the committal order or a copy and that accordingly the order should be set aside . |
| 11 | For what might he be best remembered ( quiz setters take note ) . |
| 12 | Why should he be so changed ? |
| 13 | If you are addressing your senior manager will he be constantly interrupted by phone calls ? |
| 14 | He being closely followed by pretty Sally with squash for those members who would prefer it . |
| 15 | Only why was he being so determined in the face of her rudeness ? |
| 16 | Is he being irrationally swayed by a fleeting emotion ? |
| 17 | It would be much simpler if he were simply talking about the relationship between the legislative and the executive cos here he could say right , if the executive gets out of hand and starts acting arbitrarily and tyrannically , then the legislative acting on behalf of the people as a whole can take action as indeed parliament did during the civil wars . |
| 18 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 19 | It was as if he were truculently stating that he had gone as far towards her as he was prepared to go . |
| 20 | He were just made me laugh come on then I 'll just come out with you , in the garden . |
| 21 | He were just messing about ! |
| 22 | The memory was staggeringly clear , as though he had just heard those other bells , as though he were just surging forward in his final spurt , kicking for home . |
| 23 | My mother sighed as she peered at those crowding white sails and topgallants : ‘ If only he were here to see that ! ’ |
| 24 | If he were here to answer the question , I suspect that he would be in considerable difficulty if he tried to say that he continued to oppose those privatisations . |
| 25 | Instead his lips compressed , as if he were physically stemming a tide of words , and he slung his briefcase on to the bare chart table . |
| 26 | He pulled a fold of cloth loose and , with tender movements , as if he were sensually unwrapping some erogenous zone , he felt the cloth . |
| 27 | " I take it you would be happier if your boy was effeminate than if he were somehow connected to some Irish political group . " |
| 28 | NICHOLAS KEPT TELLING himself that he had never before done this — as if he were somehow engaged in research and thereby exonerated . |
| 29 | Well I took it out , a load of it out this morning in my hand cos he were nearly sitting on it ! |
| 30 | What is most apparent about the correspondence — apart from Pound 's tendency to lecture Eliot on whom he should publish and what cause to support is Eliot 's extraordinary ability to mimic Pound 's verbal mannerisms , as if he were willingly immersing himself in his personality . |