Example sentences of "he be [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aah said as 'ow 'e 's only a poor little thing . ’ |
| 2 | The how we come to Jesus , the why 's we come to him are not the important thing , the real issue is that we come to him . |
| 3 | ‘ Fighters who have been in with him are never the same again , ’ he said last week . |
| 4 | But would the pain of losing him be any the less simply because she 'd managed to hold him at bay ? |
| 5 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 6 | You have the sense to realise that taking out your anger on him is not the answer and will threaten your relationship . |
| 7 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |
| 8 | He is an accomplice , in the sense that everyone who joins another in decoding a linguistic sign co-operates with them in the establishment of its meaning ; but we can see that the sign Iago offers him is just the opposite of what Othello wants to believe , or has believed till now . |
| 9 | Because very often you , a father can be very keen on gardening and getting the children to help him is just the last thing . |
| 10 | The protest of the human individual against the massive forces which control him is indeed a theme which can be seen in contemporary art , literature , music and drama , in the struggles against racialism , poverty and war , in the popular movements of Western youth and in the renewed campaign for women 's emancipation ; so we can hardly be surprised if parents too begin to question the authority of the experts . |
| 11 | His attitude towards him is much the same as that of the ‘ poor white ’ to the ‘ niggers ’ in the former slave states of the U.S.A … . |
| 12 | He may be like a banana tree or a coconut tree , half human in appearance , revolting in every way , but caring for him is still a woman 's duty if he 's her husband . |
| 13 | Anyway , there was hardly an atmosphere of trust between the two of us so the idea of me ‘ dealing ’ with him was not a comfortable one . |
| 14 | In Robinson v. Graves ( 1935 ) the Court of Appeal held that a contract whereby an artist agreed to paint a client 's portrait for him was not a contract of sale of goods . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most interesting thing about him was not the conclusion he reached , but the way he reached it . |
| 16 | That for him was not the problem , however . |
| 17 | What concerned him was not the brutality but the fact that it had taken place while the Corporals were drunk . |
| 18 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |
| 19 | " Count Munichhausen " who " supplied " him was probably the Premierminister des Kurfurstentums Hannover , Adolph Freiherr von Munchhausen ( 1698–1770 ) ( not the " Lugendbaron " Hieronymus Freiherr von Munchhausen notorious for the mendacity of his tales of his military exploits ! ) . |
| 20 | The twitch broadened fractionally into what might have been a smile on anyone else but on him was just a rearrangement of composed features . |
| 21 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 22 | Maybe he should go back , but inside him was still the lump of anger against them . |
| 23 | Her feeling for him was now the breath and life of Tess 's being . |
| 24 | The Mirror Group 's decision to sell it to him was perhaps the greatest miscalculation in post-war press history . |
| 25 | ‘ I say that 'cause he were n't a ‘ appy man . |
| 26 | He were yourn , you kept saying , though he were n't no more yourn than mine . ’ |
| 27 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 28 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 29 | It was particularly offensive to hear the Secretary of State talking about price increases in the gas industry before privatisation , as though he were not a member of a party and Government who decreed that gas prices had to rise arbitrarily , unilaterally and unnecessarily by 10 per cent . |
| 30 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |