Example sentences of "he be [verb] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he be 'd a fire engine |
| 2 | Why should he be visiting a London merchant ? ’ |
| 3 | He spoke with a total lack of melodrama , as though he were reciting a shopping list . |
| 4 | Almost as if he were describing a Stieglitz photograph of her , he characterised O'Keeffe as ‘ gaping with deep open eyes and fixed mouth at the rather trivial world of living people ’ and called her art ‘ unqualified nakedness of statement . ’ |
| 5 | He is wearing a tweed cap and an ancient blue trenchcoat . |
| 6 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is setting an obstacle course for the courts which will make it more difficult for them to pass tough sentences in serious cases ? |
| 7 | He is buying a farm house along with several acres of ground , but the riding will be strictly for his children . |
| 8 | When a production manager for example , meets a customer to discuss a quality problem or a minor design change , he is fulfilling a marketing role ; and so is a personnel manager when he negotiates an agreement with union representatives that a particular customer 's goods may be moved from the premises during a strike . |
| 9 | But there is no rest day for Miller — he is taking a coaching course with the cream of Jersey 's young talented footballers today . |
| 10 | He is conducting a field trip to some of the places where once ‘ black smokers ’ rose above the floor of a long-vanished ocean , depositing their minerals to form the ore mined millenia later . |
| 11 | This time he is promoting a solo album . |
| 12 | When he hires Sally Allport as assistant treasurer , Roberto Luciano to manage International Sales or Laurie Vickers to lead Development Engineering , he is seizing an investment opportunity . |
| 13 | Every time he speaks to a colleague , a team-member or a customer , he is seizing an investment opportunity . |
| 14 | Every time he writes a report , makes a decision , goes for a walk , he is seizing an investment opportunity . |
| 15 | Any network circulars where the originating office dos not have a fee paying client and he is seeking a brokerage type fee from the receiving office 's client or contact , should be clearly stated from the outset . |
| 16 | The exporter does not expect to get paid for his goods for 12 months so he is given a credit note — a standby letter — from the importer 's bank . |
| 17 | WAVE OF SUPPORT : Tebbit greets delegates as he is given a standing ovation after his onslaught on John Major yesterday |
| 18 | However , if it seems that the physiotherapist is not treating the patient effectively , you should ask whether , perhaps , he might be assessed and treated by a more senior physiotherapist , if he is attending a hospital department . |
| 19 | Gary Bollan ( Dundee United ) , Brian O'Neil ( Celtic ) , Phil O'Donnell ( Motherwell ) , Craig Burley ( Chelsea ) and John Henry ( Clydebank ) , were lost through injury and Falkirk 's Forbes Johnston will miss out because he is sitting a university examination . |
| 20 | He is hosting a shooting party for a dozen close friends at Sandringham and is said to be ‘ most unwilling ’ to alter his plans . |
| 21 | He is doing a physiotherapy degree in that spare time . |
| 22 | But however , he is doing a wheeler typo thing , almost a grind , atop the extension . |
| 23 | It was also to be Andrew Knight 's last executive action : he is becoming a non-executive deputy chairman as Conrad Black , holding 80 per cent of the shares , assumes daily control . |
| 24 | He is following a correspondence course in gardening for adults with comparative ease . |
| 25 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 26 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one idea for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more police for the fight against crime . |
| 27 | His work can be seen regularly at the Chris Beetles Gallery , where he is having a solo exhibition from March 31-April 16 |
| 28 | JOHN Major was facing a threatened winter of discontent last night over reports that he is to impose a 1pc pay freeze on 5m public sector workers . |
| 29 | JOHN Major was facing a threatened winter of discontent last night over reports that he is to impose a 1pc pay freeze on five million public sector workers . |
| 30 | Hizir Bey was greatly impressed by him and sent him to Murad II , recommending that he be given a teaching post . |