Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 2 | And even now the closeness of him was acting like a drug on her tired senses , its effect heightened by a heady mixture of desire and fear . |
| 3 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 4 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 5 | Has he been working for a long time ? |
| 6 | Francie 's shoes were brilliant with polish but Finn 's were caked with mud — though where could he have been , had he been walking in the pleasure garden by himself , talking to the broken queen and patting the stone lioness on the head ? |
| 7 | What would he be doing on a scientific installation ? ’ |
| 8 | But what would he be doing in the middle of nowhere … unless he was keeping an eye on Mungo , to see that he was safe ? |
| 9 | Jim spoke as if he were telephoning from a golf club instead of a cuckold 's bed . |
| 10 | His swollen upper lip felt enormous and stiff , as though he were recovering from a dental injection . |
| 11 | ‘ Only that he were hiding in the garden . ’ |
| 12 | But the paper was so damp that his pen merely furrowed it , as if he were writing on a slab of butter . |
| 13 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 14 | Bedraggled , barefoot , dressed in dirty white ducks , he looked as though he were hovering on the verge of death . |
| 15 | Ruth wanted to reach out and pull him back , as if he were moving towards a precipice . |
| 16 | He felt half excited , half afraid , as though he were delving into a hidden world ; a world which preferred to remain undiscovered ; which might go to any lengths to protect its secrets . |
| 17 | His tone had been matter-of-fact , as if he were reporting to a committee . |
| 18 | Russell 's eyes followed her every move as if he were looking through the sight of a gun . |
| 19 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 20 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 21 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 22 | His agitation was plain as he rubbed the palm of one beefy hand against the back of the other , as if he were suffering from a skin irritation . |
| 23 | He were working for an erm Macro or something . |
| 24 | She sat up very straight on the side of the bed and continued to address him as if he were sitting on a mat in the Top Infants , wrestling with difficult , dangerous new concepts like add-ups and take-aways and the precise whereabouts of Australia . |
| 25 | Further on , a hundred yards off-shore , as if he were walking on the water , his companion disturbed the glass-still lagoon as he strode through the shallows over a sand bar . |
| 26 | It gets its name from the fact that it requires a fighter simply to raise his hands in a defensive position and bend his legs slightly , almost as if he were walking down the street . |
| 27 | It was as if he were preparing for the day he would be a big man himself in this town and wanted everyone on his side , wanted them all to think of him as a customer . |
| 28 | It was as if he were going to the edge again of something fresh and new . |
| 29 | His other neighbour 's child-bride kissed her boy hero each morning , in her floating web dressing gown , as if he were going to the Falklands for three months . |
| 30 | I think he were going for a , a month , a month and a half summat like that , and he said it were out of this world . |