Example sentences of "he be [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aah said as 'ow 'e 's only a poor little thing . ’ |
| 2 | And er the chap that tended her was er a locum , he were only a young chap , and er he says , Oh oh I 'm sorry , he says , I 'd better get me old man to come , he said I do n't suppose I 'll ever see another of these in my career . |
| 3 | He were only a young boy , seventeen year old . |
| 4 | Which is why Caroline likes nursing him as if he were still a lost child . |
| 5 | He was firing deliberately a bit wide , I thought , to scare rather than to hit me , for at that sort of range anyone with a rifle — unless he were truly an appalling shot — could scarcely miss . |
| 6 | Although he has lived in the UK since 1969 , Zarei was born in Iran and is often listed as Iranian , but he is officially a British athlete , and won an England vest when competing in the Milton Keynes 24-hour Championships in 1989 . |
| 7 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 8 | Naturally I approached Bates in the strictest confidence , but all too quickly I learned that he is just a gin-sodden loud-mouth . |
| 9 | he is just a right prick , right ? |
| 10 | And a delighted Billy Bonds saluted Allen 's week by saying : ‘ He is just a great goalscorer — it 's as simple as that . ’ |
| 11 | He is just a confused young man going through a postgraduate crisis ; a rebel without claws . |
| 12 | Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . |
| 13 | I say gentleman , but I suppose he is just an official thug . ’ |
| 14 | Actually , we decided after a bit that there was nothing very sinister about Sun , but that he is just an auxiliary comrade who helps to keep tabs on us , makes sure we do n't get lost in the crowd , etc . |
| 15 | I think he is just an ill and shocked young man with the highly strung temperament of so many artistic people . |
| 16 | At first he is just an unspecified ours , a bear ( 1841 ) . |
| 17 | Dante is a political poet but he is also a great deal more than that . |
| 18 | He is also a great man . |
| 19 | He is also a great friend of the Festival , and it will be a delight to have him with us again . |
| 20 | He is also a certain choice for the Scottish squad for the Students ' World Cup in Italy in July . |
| 21 | He is also a keen writer , having contributed to The Daily Telegraph and is working on his first book , a fictional work based loosely on his life story , which is already attracting interest from Central Television , who may serialise it . |
| 22 | He is also a keen cook . |
| 23 | He is also a keen golfer and a past captain of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield , to whom he presented a photograph of himself wearing a wig . |
| 24 | He is also a keen tennis player , running the men 's winter league at his club and even makes time to teach cycling awareness to youngsters at nearby Holmer Green . |
| 25 | He is also a keen footballer and for the past 18 years has run the Johnstone United Boys Club , where Robert Hassan once played as a teenager . |
| 26 | He is also a familiar face on the TVS series " That 's Gardening " and has written eight books . |
| 27 | Not only does he play a part in the management of the company , he is also a crucial element in the system of supervision by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 28 | Volkmar is a zealous preacher utterly devoted to the destruction of Chaos , but he is also a mighty warrior who is not afraid to face the peril of battle . |
| 29 | He will need my attention and as I note from his record that he is also a Roman Catholic by religion , he may also need the ministrations of Father Martin here . ’ |
| 30 | He is also a symbolic figure who represents the unity of the nation and sits in the chair once occupied by folk heroes and demi gods such as Washington , Jefferson and Lincoln . |