Example sentences of "he be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has he been on any recent training courses to discuss this ? . |
| 2 | Resenence Jeopardy still expected him to work hard , was still friendly and attentive , but had n't he been like that the day before ? |
| 3 | ‘ How long has he been like this ? ’ |
| 4 | Has he been in all day ? |
| 5 | Has he been in all day ? |
| 6 | Will he be at this meeting tonight ? ’ |
| 7 | Ca n't he be of any help at all ? ’ |
| 8 | For why else , I thought would he be in that position , sensuously embracing a vicious criminal who had tried to kill her partner ? |
| 9 | Deep gashes of black under the eyes , skin the colour of ashes , a slight wobbliness to his movements , His speech is fastidious , precise in a way that would seem pompous if he were at all ebullient ; but with his small , gave voice — sometimes withering , always withered — the impression is of a wary distrust of words and the ways they can be misconstrued . |
| 10 | He were under these covers and erm |
| 11 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 12 | Er , he were in all day yesterday and , then he disappeared this morning . |
| 13 | He were in this morning he 's er had summat to eat , well he 's made it obvious . |
| 14 | A real friendly fellow he were by all accounts , bought 'em all drinks . ’ |
| 15 | Well what , I 'll never forget this chap do up on Avenue Road he were like that ! |
| 16 | Tried him with anything the other day when he were like this . |
| 17 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 18 | Once he is in the grip of a real temper tantrum , it is useless to try punishing him , since he is beyond all reason , unable to understand what he is doing or what you are saying . |
| 19 | Although much of his historical writing depended on oral testimony , he is of all ancient historians the one who most frequently cites the authors and documents that he has consulted . |
| 20 | King of the Road , he is of this stretch . |
| 21 | ‘ It is ordered that in the interim and an injunction is hereby granted ordering that in the events ( i ) that the medical condition of [ J. ] changes in such a way that his life is threatened but is capable of being prolonged by the application to him of intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( ii ) that he is at that time in the care of the … |
| 22 | The extent to which this is an objection to Locke 's actual views will depend , as in the case of the brave officer , on whether they concern what makes a person at one time the same as he is at another , or concern moral matters of praise and blame . |
| 23 | I appeal to the Minister : the man should not be allowed to return to his unit ; he should remain where he is at this moment . |
| 24 | Oh I do n't think he is at this rate na , Jonathan ! |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman is right , and for once he is on all fours with British Rail . |
| 26 | ‘ Boggers ’ takes us for science and he is , by common agreement , a bit of a wimp — at least he is on some days . |
| 27 | Gandhi actually acknowledges this fact ; he is above all a practical idealist . |
| 28 | For he is above all concerned to deny that the point of the universe is somehow to serve human interests . |
| 29 | He is always older than the heroine , usually in his early or mid-30s , rich , successful in the vocation of his own choice … he is above all virile . |
| 30 | Nobody can touch him when he is in that mood . ’ |