Example sentences of "he be [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 3 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 4 | When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’ |
| 5 | Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom . |
| 6 | He is basing it on the book by Martha Zamora Frida , el pincel de la angustia . |
| 7 | However , if he happens also to run a business and sells one of the cars in circumstances suggesting that he is selling it in the course of that business , then he is likely to be regarded as doing just that , Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( paragraph 9–20 above ) . |
| 8 | But he can only get a hundred pound back if he 's get it from the bank . |
| 9 | Well while he 's raking it in every bloody week for sitting on his behind in parliament there , he can pay for them ! |
| 10 | He 's taking it off the wrong has n't he ? |
| 11 | He 's taking it for the meeting tomorrow . |
| 12 | he 's getting it in the gones . |
| 13 | Darius is struggling to finish his , and he 's smearing it round the bowl so it looks like he 's ate it , and I say I ca n't eat any more because I got to stay sober tonight . |
| 14 | He 's done it on a shoestring budget to boot and , inevitably , such achievement has n't gone unnoticed in other Premier League boardrooms . |
| 15 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 16 | The Handmaid 's Tale is director Volker Schlondorff 's first American feature , and he 's done it by the book . |
| 17 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |
| 18 | He 's doing it for the challenge . |
| 19 | He 's doing it as a wedding present . |
| 20 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 21 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 22 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 23 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 24 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 26 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 27 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 28 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 29 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 30 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |