Example sentences of "he be [not/n't] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's not in the islands right now . ’ |
| 2 | Why did you say go away when he was n't on the flowers ? |
| 3 | She 'd tried and she she did n't , her husband was at home he was n't in the Forces but th this was the attitude . |
| 4 | He was not like the saints you read about who had been parish priests . |
| 5 | She wondered idly why Rose had not asked him to apply the sun-cream and then realised that he was not among the swimmers . |
| 6 | When the universities reacted unfavourably to this aspect of the paper , accusing its authors of philistinism , the then Secretary of State , Sir Keith Joseph , was quick to reply that he was not against the arts subjects : far from it . |