Example sentences of "he be [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's always bin the quiet one . |
| 2 | 'E 's never bin the same since the stables . |
| 3 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 4 | What is required of the student is the capacity to identify with English : " Unless an undergraduate can identify himself in some sense with the subject he is studying , he is either reading the wrong School , or has no business to be at university at all . |
| 5 | By arguing , amongst other radical things , for limited liability , the new chairman could change that — and he is already making the right noises . |
| 6 | Singer , for example , although he is here questioning the alleged rights of the human foetus , admits that it must have a potential that |
| 7 | ‘ If he says he needs a fresh challenge every six to 12 months , as he did when he left Leeds , he is only expressing the natural motivation every top sportsman requires . |
| 8 | Thirty years later , Healey says in his book , he is still making the same speech . |
| 9 | He is currently investigating the unusual claims made for this range of products . |
| 10 | His constituency is close to the infamous Blackbird Leys estate and he 's also running the new campaign … |
| 11 | He 's even pinching the old boy 's . |
| 12 | He 's just crossing the main road , over to the shops . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He 's already co-ordinating the regional plans to provide a world picture . |
| 14 | But in remote Kazakhstan he 's finally spotted the last one on his list . |
| 15 | One lifeguard said , ‘ Ace may not have ridden the biggest wave , but he 's sure got the biggest mouth . ’ |
| 16 | Terribly fast , it was er , er , over his left shoulder going down there like a rate of knots and he 's now telling the other slips , putting his left hand showing where it might have gone . |
| 17 | Instead of leading the Lost Boys , he 's now leading the Lost Executives . ’ |
| 18 | But in the course of that , he 's so angered the international community that sanctions as we know , economic sanctions have been levelled against Iraq , and they have bit , and they have hurt the Iraqi people , but in general , Saddam is not responsive to that kind of pressure . |
| 19 | Makes no difference what for , he 's always doing the bad penny act . ’ |
| 20 | He 's obviously abandoning the sinking ship cos he knows what 's happening to it . |
| 21 | He 's obviously abandoning the sinking ship cos he knows what 's happening to it . |
| 22 | He 's still doing the nice steady thirty . |
| 23 | I said well I think she realized it came to so he 's definitely booked the high court so she 's , she 's done nothing about changing him or anything like that . |
| 24 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 25 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
| 26 | For this he was posthumously awarded the Military Cross . |
| 27 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
| 28 | He was just told the bare charge . |
| 29 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 30 | William Penn , who founded Pennsylvania , was baptised at All Hallows , and John Quincy Adams married there in 1797 ; he was later to become the sixth president of the U.S.A. |