Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any'ow my Billy ai n't got much , an' what 'e 'as got 'e 's keepin' it fer 'imself . ’ |
| 2 | I s'pose 'e 's told yer about me , ’ he said smiling . |
| 3 | The politicians around him are encouraging him in his insistence on the levy because they want to stop Patros . ’ |
| 4 | Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son . |
| 5 | Paul tells him about how John never got to go to Disneyland when he was little , and all his life John 's wanted to go , and Paul 's decided that the one thing they have to do for him is to take him to Disneyland . |
| 6 | Has he been having anything on the side ? ’ |
| 7 | His exclamation endorsed her suspicion , but why should he be regarding her with such a look of furious triumph on his face ? |
| 8 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He felt precisely as if he were hiding something from her . |
| 11 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 12 | The name was spoken with a malevolent hiss , as though he were spitting it from his blood-smeared mouth , so hateful was its foul taste to him . |
| 13 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 14 | I 've moved that , I moved that so he did n't knock it over cos he were knocking it with his tail . |
| 15 | Such a touching story , Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall — ’ and he spoke her name as though he were striking her with it ‘ — and all a lie . |
| 16 | Johnny 's words had left her feeling inadequate , as though he were presenting her with some enormous challenge which she did not feel equal to meet . |
| 17 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 18 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 19 | ‘ He is warning me about my death , ’ Alexander announced quietly , ‘ Violent and soon to happen ! ’ |
| 20 | In such a case the judge is not abusing his powers ; he is exercising them to the best of his ability albeit some other court thinks he was mistaken . |
| 21 | He is using them like puppets . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He is reminding us of the way we are coming to the Lord . |
| 24 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 25 | When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’ |
| 26 | He is taking us on an interesting excursion , |
| 27 | She may wish you to accompany her to his office or to be present if he is to visit her in her home , and he will be pleased to have your co-operation . |
| 28 | Come on you lot you know where he is get him on the phone I want to talk to him . |
| 29 | It 's within the congregation , Paulo was writing , not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees , said you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake so he was speaking to spiritual people , spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake , awake from sleep or slumbers , for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers , and that 's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday , the time that much nearer now is n't it ? |
| 30 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |