Example sentences of "he be [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going tonight , ’ he said , scuffing the paragraph in The Stage hard with his foot as if he were rubbing cigarette ash into the carpet . |
| 3 | The following day , in a temperature down around — 2O°C ( — -4°F ) , I am wearing loop-stitch socks and Lundhags , and he is wearing reindeer skin boots and grass . |
| 4 | When he walks down the corridor , he is striving fur success . |
| 5 | We can restate Saussure 's argument by saying that he is taking colour terminology as paradigmatic for all language ; just as colour terms impose arbitrary divisions on the continuous spectrum of light waves , so all other words impose arbitrary divisions on the ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ which , without language , would constitute our mental experience . |
| 6 | Currently , he is harassing Luton Council for a statue to commemorate Raddy Antic , whose last-minute goal at Maine Road , a decade or so back , prevented Luton from dropping into Division Two . |
| 7 | He is recommending Rank Organisation 8¼ p.c. ( down 1 at 103p ) , Carlton Communications 6½ p.c. ( steady at 84p ) and Queens Moat 7½ p.c. ( ½ weaker at 95½p ) in the first instance , together with British Land 6⅝ p.c. ( down £1 at £74 ) for those wanting a spicy play on the property sector . |
| 8 | Ferguson also confirmed he is to report Kettering referee Brian Hill following last weekend 's clash at Bramall Lane after insisting he did not want the official to control United 's games in the future . |
| 9 | He is drinking Morning Thunder herbal tea . |
| 10 | He is drinking soda pop out of a can the same shrill dayglo orange colour as emergency road markings . |
| 11 | There 's a crowd of about 30 people but , as far as Mr Breed is concerned , he is playing Wembley Stadium . |
| 12 | Now he is playing solicitor Spettigue , whose niece and ward misbehave themselves by having an unchaperoned lunch at Oxford University with a couple of male students . |
| 13 | He is studying business management . |
| 14 | He is asking Chester Health Authority to carry out an investigation of need in the area and to respond to it . |
| 15 | He 's teaching summer school in Bradford — that 's a town in the north of England . ’ |
| 16 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 17 | He 's bringing Emma home from hospital this afternoon . |
| 18 | For the past 7 years he 's attended Dean Hall Special School near Cinderford . |
| 19 | Now he says he 's taking court action for compensation . |
| 20 | He 's undergoing laser treatment at the minute is n't he ? |
| 21 | He 's undergoing laser treatment but as everybody will point out to you , when he 's in the Tardis and he 's operating the computer , even with his glasses on , he 's reading it like this . |
| 22 | He has a broken jaw , But doctors believe he 's escaped brain damage . |
| 23 | The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's missed county cricket a lot and he 's determined to make the most of his opportunities with us . |
| 25 | He 's doing market research . |
| 26 | He says he 's offering £10,000 reward , he wants to know who 's behind the attacks , not just who carried them out . |
| 27 | First a man has become so desperate to sell his house that he 's offering cash help with the mortgage . |
| 28 | because he 's playing table tennis all the time now |
| 29 | Before he goes , he 's having specialist physiotheraphy . |
| 30 | It was a clear case of personal patronage , but he was to remain executive head for thirty-three years . |