Example sentences of "he [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's a terrible racking cough . ’ |
| 2 | Now Sidney , 'er 'usband , 'e 's a decent bloke , but 'e 's no oil paintin' . ’ |
| 3 | She could do a lot worse — 'e 's a good , steady man and 'e 's not given ti strong drink . ’ |
| 4 | 'E 's a good pair o' lungs , ’ she smiled , ‘ but 'e 's not very big . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 'E 's a good sort , is Alf , ’ said Dolly , nodding gravely . |
| 6 | ‘ Since 'e 's bin in wiv that crowd from the Tunnel , though , 'e 's a changed boy . |
| 7 | ‘ 'E 's a spry ole thing , but he 's as soft as butter , ent you , ole boy ? ’ and he knelt down and ruffled his fur . |
| 8 | The midwife laid the little scrap in Tamar 's arms and said , ‘ 'E 's a lovely lad , Lady Lassiter. 'E 's not big , but 'e 's all the world ti grow in . ’ |
| 9 | 'E 's a fine specimen and good stock-getter and he 's unrelated ti these two . ’ |
| 10 | I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man . |
| 11 | ‘ I told 'im 'e was a no-good whoreson an' 'e should n't 'ave wasted my time in the first place , ’ Billy replied , his blue eyes blazing at the memory of it . |
| 12 | The internal working of all bodies around him are a normal part of any dolphin 's external environment … . |
| 13 | Oh , please , let him be a quick finisher . |
| 14 | Him being a Labour councillor , and all . ’ |
| 15 | Not putting yourselves out , I reckon , on account of him being a working fella . |
| 16 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 17 | Yeah I mean I was n't expecting anything like er erm like him being a nice person to me ever again but it was fun |
| 18 | She was surprised he lived so poorly , him being a successful man . |
| 19 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just wonderful to think of him being a little boy … ’ |
| 21 | Because of him being a rescued dog I ca n't ever give him a slap |
| 22 | She had never imagined him being a popular figure . |
| 23 | We know that the early Church was intoxicated with the experience of the Spirit , and the comparative silence of the Gospels about him is a great credit to their historical trustworthiness in not reading back the conditions of their post resurrection situation into the days of Jesus ' life . |
| 24 | Talking to him is a strange experience : he immediately establishes a close relationship . |
| 25 | ‘ Your husband may well be decent , kind and generous to you , but all you are to him is a decorative object . |
| 26 | Macbeth 's explanation of why they must kill Banquo for him is a perfect description of the tribute that vice pays to virtue : because of That is almost too explicit in its description of the gap between false surface and his true feelings , and in its affected , forced language ( ‘ to your assistance do make love ’ ) . |
| 27 | Behind him is a gay sight . |
| 28 | The Greece that these writers evoke for him is a whole culture , a mode of life in which there is no division between material and spiritual , gods and men : |
| 29 | Smith added : ‘ Losing him is a huge blow but with Gary Stevens back in the side and Dave McPherson fit , we have plenty of experience in defence . |
| 30 | That occasionally it ran away with him was a simple misfortune , and was always distasteful in retrospect . |