Example sentences of "he be [verb] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as long as he is setting up things for other people , that 's fine by me . ’ |
| 2 | He believes that things are as they seem to Dr Serafin ; that he is putting up proposals which are as sound as his judgement and experience can make them , that he is withdrawing them in deference to Serafin 's objections , and that he will be forced to formulate alternative proposals which can not be known to him yet because they will take their rise from views Serafin has still not expressed . |
| 3 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 4 | Yamazaki seems unconcerned by the fact that he 's taking on problems that have defeated many who should have known better . |
| 5 | In real life he flies Andovers at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire , but for now he 's pawing over charts of a different kind , plotting his route to the eastern seaboard of the United States . |
| 6 | Luke strode along beside her , hands pushed easily into the pockets of the leather jacket he was wearing over jeans and a blue knit shirt that made his skin look even more tanned , his hair richly black . |
| 7 | In the brief flare of the lighter she saw he was lying back hands clasped under his head staring at the ceiling . |
| 8 | Phil toppled from a stepladder as he was putting up decorations for the big day — and a spike went right through him . |
| 9 | He was running up horses ’ rears all the way round . |
| 10 | To Libby it seemed as though he was marking out boundaries the way she and George had done the winter it snowed ; making footsteps in the dense white stuff , indicating territories . |
| 11 | Addressing Liverpool Crown Court , Miss Coltman : ‘ He said he was carrying out operations at the hospital . |
| 12 | An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’ |