Example sentences of "he be [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 2 | He 's up to the middle class ! |
| 3 | And say he 's round about the fortyish age and we spoke to him last week and I said you got a job yet ? |
| 4 | Anyway erm so erm you sometimes also find with family situations , let's suppose in some situations you have some you have a daughter in the household who 's being abused by say the father or step-father , maybe if there 's a brother once he gets old enough to start becoming interested in sex , in some cases , although he 's round about the same age as his sister , can be um as it were inducted into the into the cycle of abuse erm can actually start participating when the dynamic 's already there . |
| 5 | Then you get so drunk that he steals your cab and he 's off on the loose once more . ’ |
| 6 | British under 16 champion twice now he 's off to the European Championships … |
| 7 | He 's down to the fucking , it 's taken him more than three hours ! |
| 8 | He 's back at the main menu , he 's calling up the directory , the very List of Lists , the brain surgeon 's own encephalogram . |
| 9 | Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface . |
| 10 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 11 | Each evening he was off to the local pub The Royal Oak where he apparently became the life and soul of the party . |
| 12 | The main consideration in gaining a clear conscience is that we work out the wording carefully in advance as the prodigal son did when he was off in the far country . |
| 13 | Through the swing doors , and he had not registered what was happening to him until he was out into the late afternoon cold and the open doorway at the back of the car was yawning for him . |
| 14 | It was partly because he was out of the top drawer , of course . |
| 15 | He only started to relax when he was out on the stone-chip drive and walking away from the house . |
| 16 | He strode past the lines of guards and attendants , nodded to the pair of officers who lounged at their ease in the shadow of the enormous length of midnight-blue fabric which hung suspended from the ceiling in lieu of a screen , and slackened his pace only when he was out in the long gallery which ran supported around the entire upper floor . |
| 17 | He was out in the last over before tea after completing his 15th Test century . |
| 18 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 19 | Now he was back at the sharp end . |
| 20 | He was back at the open unit on 9 June 1991 , but the following day he absconded again and this time was absent for 94 days . |
| 21 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |
| 22 | Just an hour later he was back in the same court to give evidence against three men accused of trying to murder him . |
| 23 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |