Example sentences of "he be [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Presently , he is making six TV films based on stories by Frederick Forsyth .
2 He 's on the dole , lucky if he 's gets thirty pound a week .
3 And he , he 's getting one parent benefit !
4 He 's made sixty-three job applications , and had fifteen interviews .
5 He 's made 2 escape attempts and had a reputation for persistent violence .
6 But his lifestyle has lead to court appearances on drug and driving offences and he 's served two jail sentences .
7 In hospital both lungs collapsed and since then he 's lost 2 stone in weight .
8 He 's doing thirty mile an hour .
9 But he 's forgotten one thing .
10 Where he 'd come from and where he was ensured one thing : like Garnett , Mercer , and Loach , Goodwin was a socialist .
11 He was given two telephone numbers to contact MI5 , 01–222 5471 and 01–637 7319 .
12 He was given three penalty points and ordered to pay £15 towards prosecution costs .
13 Life has changed for Loris Capirossi since he was crowned 125 world champion last September .
14 ‘ He had a great long stride — like he was wearing seven league boots .
15 By 1915 he was advising one commentator ‘ to treat my verse … as my essential writings , & my prose as my accidental ’ .
16 At Club LaSanta , the sporting holiday resort where he trains in Lanzarote , the other guests are clearly getting a little fillip from the rangy , easy presence of their imagistic icon , but still he was cornered one night in the bar by a posse of English girls to be accused : ‘ Oh , we hear you 're really arrogant . ’
17 Shaved this Lieutenant Sergeant Major eyebrow off when he was sleeping one night , and he was in front of the , the Colonel Chief and Regional so what he did , he , cos it , it took , taken ages , took about three months to grow back , so what he did was he shaved the other one off as well
18 And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning .
19 This simply means that he felt that he was doing one thing when , in fact , he was really doing the opposite .
20 She heard his sigh , then he was raising one hand to the dark wealth of hair at the back of her head , drawing her face away from the warm sanctuary of his chest , ignoring her small whimper of protest as his lips descended on hers .
21 He was murdered one day after he told Lebanese , on the eve of their 46th independence anniversary , that their divided country was close to peace .
22 He was having one hell of a party .
23 He had his chin resting on his hand , and one finger was against his long nose in a curious gesture that suggested that he was saying one thing and meaning another .
24 He was working one day , painting from nature , and got caught in a rainstorm .
25 But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he .
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