Example sentences of "he be do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So erm w if Had he been doing digging graves when he was in Suffolk ? |
| 2 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |
| 3 | Jim Clark spends his working day in the store-room of Stoddards Carpets — but in his spare time , he is doing excellent work for Elderslie Boys Club where he has recently arranged a football trip to Holland . |
| 4 | He 's done sterling work . ’ |
| 5 | He was an agent in the Great War , he 's done wonderful work , wonderful . |
| 6 | the fact that Freud linked the two things together , the very title of the book shows the evil th that group psychology and ego psychology were intimately intimately connected with one another and er the central idea was that as Dean rightly says is that in a group the leader or the leading principal , and it does n't always have to be a person , although usually a person plays , kind of represents the , the er the leader in the way that the Pope represents Christ for example , you know Christ ca n't be here right now , he 's doing other things elsewhere I presume . |
| 7 | He thinks I think I 'm better than him because I 'm doing a science degree and he 's doing Fine Art . |
| 8 | ‘ We are horrified that such an innocent young lad as our son Craig could be cut down in this way when he was doing humanitarian work , ’ he said . |
| 9 | His original crime was allegedly that he was plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into Ireland and trying to raise a further army by levying a charge on the poverty stricken clergy of Ireland among whom he was doing mighty works in reviving the Catholic faith . |
| 10 | She supposed that Maria Luisa must have turned to Fernando in her despair when Steve had left Seville and that was how their affair had started ; now Fernando was so besotted it edged towards obsession and he was doing crazy things like holding her here against her will for some sort of revenge on Steve . |