Example sentences of "he be [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daughter of a brilliant and beautiful mother , who died giving birth , the gauche and unconfident Catherine Sloper lives in the shadow of her rich father 's thinly veiled contempt … when the young handsome and charming Morris Townsend falls in love with her , the father thinks he is nothing but a fortune seeking bounder . |
| 2 | ‘ He is nothing like the gigolos he plays in the movies . |
| 3 | Describing his photograph , Mr Ashdown said : ‘ He is one in a row of 150 , crammed six rows to a cattle shed in the baking Bosnian heat . |
| 4 | His own dismissal of deconstruction as a merely textual practice means that he is himself at a loss when faced with the complex conceptual dialectics of the same and the other . |
| 5 | After the Malvinas war he is something of a hero . |
| 6 | He is something of a monetarist and , as such , the devaluation of wages , not to mention the debasement of people , does n't seem to worry him . |
| 7 | He is likely to knock you off your feet just being led across the yard if he can find anything to spook at , and when it comes to removing rugs he is something of a Houdini . |
| 8 | As he is something of a carpenter ( he built his own sail boat for use on the Chesapeake ) , he found it simple enough to take off the right-angled corners and substitute curves . |
| 9 | In his own way he is something of an expert on the private lives of actresses . |
| 10 | In this respect he is something like a general on a battlefield — except that the battle never comes to an end . |
| 11 | My mother , who came from a staunchly ‘ church ’ family , used to express her antipathy when she often declared , ‘ He 's nothing but a chapel dodger , ’ and it 's difficult to describe the scorn that she would put into the phrase . |
| 12 | He says he 's nothing but a nuisance . |
| 13 | In short he 's something of a crossover artist ; he clearly feels as comfortable borrowing from the past as he does with a more modern approach . |
| 14 | And yet , the history of the Lemonheads — in which , five albums down the line , he 's the only constant — suggests he 's something of a control freak , far more fastidious than he seems . |
| 15 | He 's something of a hermit by nature and imagined he could cope with it all by himself , apart from getting in labour when necessary . ’ |
| 16 | He 's something in the government , I guess . |
| 17 | I ca n't remember his name but he was something of a latecomer to the band . |
| 18 | It was one of the weirdest graveyards he had seen — and he was something of a connoisseur . |
| 19 | He was something of a mystery , which intrigued the locals . |
| 20 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 21 | He died in 1637 but it appears that for years he was something of a figure in the district . |
| 22 | ‘ But I think the way we played at Leeds he was something of a luxury sometimes — there were times when even his team mates did n't know what he woeld do next ’ ‘ It 's different at Scumchester United where they really do play through him — AND OF COURSE HE 'S ALSO SURROUNDED BY BETTER PLAYERS ’ … |
| 23 | As an undergraduate he was something of a dandy , and even as a priest his appearance was remarkably trim . |
| 24 | He was something of a disappointment to his parents . |
| 25 | He was something of a chameleon , and readily produced pieces in the style of other maîtres , constantly adapting to the mercurial tastes of the post-Louis XVI period . |
| 26 | He was something of an experimentalist , being particularly interested in glanders ( he claimed success in some cases from treatment with cantharides ) and in the circulatory system . |
| 27 | Apparently he was something of an acrobat as well . |
| 28 | Bel-Hathor seemed an inauspicious choice ; like most Sapherian princes he was something of an eccentric . |
| 29 | Unfortunately ( or perhaps fortunately ) he was nothing of the kind . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , she had pursued personal aggrandizement at his expense , a whisper of conscience hinted , until he had learned that he was nothing but a nuisance to her . |