Example sentences of "he be do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what would he be doing in the middle of nowhere … unless he was keeping an eye on Mungo , to see that he was safe ? |
| 2 | He is done with the face way too soon . |
| 3 | If you focus your eyes on his nose or his fists , you wo n't be able to see what he is doing with the rest of his body . |
| 4 | And if anyone deserves a full house that night it should be as a tribute to all he 's done for the club . |
| 5 | I think Wilko is the best we could have possibly gotten in a manager and people ( including me unto recently when I was put right ) are ready to forget what he 's done for the club . |
| 6 | I then take it on myself to swill off the blades and rollers so they wo n't put Pa off finishing the grass when he 's done with the Virgin in there . |
| 7 | ‘ Ask him what he 's done with the money ! |
| 8 | " And the work he 's done on the clunch pit case — how long would that have taken ? " |
| 9 | ‘ Show him you 're really interested in what he 's done in the past and what he 's planning to do in the future . ’ |
| 10 | Hope Adrian 's in a good mood You have n't seen what work he 's doing at the moment then , how does he know ? |
| 11 | I must just say to yo , you 're dying to ask , like what he 's doing over the corner ? |
| 12 | That 's what he 's doing in the kitchen washing the , cos Paul says if you 're back late I 'll be having my dinner before you come , I says okay . |
| 13 | No , no leave the door cos daddy does n't want mummy to see what he 's doing in the kitchen see , if you keep moving that she can see . |
| 14 | I challenged him with all the dishonesty he had shown and all the damage he was doing to the paper . |
| 15 | I suppose you asked him , sir , what he was doing up the tree ? ’ |
| 16 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 17 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |
| 18 | She asked what he was doing on the planet . |
| 19 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 20 | Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard . |
| 21 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 22 | The driver of the jeep said they picked up the Arab for questioning because he could not explain what he was doing in the area . |
| 23 | Do you know what he was doing in the car ? |