Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He were always a bit of a tyrant . |
| 2 | In every aspect of his work Caro is brazenly derivative , depending for effect on the assertiveness of scale , and is , in essence , trivial ; but , translated from the Tate Gallery to the Roman Forum ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 5 ) , he is this year the beam in the public 's eye ( would that he were only a mote ) , and thus inevitably the choice of Heaths and Fanfanis . |
| 3 | And er the chap that tended her was er a locum , he were only a young chap , and er he says , Oh oh I 'm sorry , he says , I 'd better get me old man to come , he said I do n't suppose I 'll ever see another of these in my career . |
| 4 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 5 | He were only a young boy , seventeen year old . |
| 6 | ‘ Hullo , ’ said Lili as though he were only an acquaintance . |
| 7 | She asked him if he were still a virgin . |
| 8 | Which is why Caroline likes nursing him as if he were still a lost child . |
| 9 | He were never the same when he came off mainline . |
| 10 | His reason is that he can not be sure of what code of manners were followed there and if they were not the same as his it would seem as if he were almost a bully in chasing down someone below his class . |
| 11 | He was firing deliberately a bit wide , I thought , to scare rather than to hit me , for at that sort of range anyone with a rifle — unless he were truly an appalling shot — could scarcely miss . |
| 12 | Although he has lived in the UK since 1969 , Zarei was born in Iran and is often listed as Iranian , but he is officially a British athlete , and won an England vest when competing in the Milton Keynes 24-hour Championships in 1989 . |
| 13 | A happy , approachable Oliver Stone is a new phenomenon indeed — he is no a man known for his relaxed attitude on set , and the actors in Platoon especially were pushed to the limit . |
| 14 | Though he sits by the gate of Shiloh , in his blindness watching the road , he is nearly the last in the town to hear the news . |
| 15 | The Trader warrants that he is either the owner of the goods in any Consignment or is authorized by such owner to accept these Conditions on such owner 's behalf . |
| 16 | ‘ If a person is intelligent , then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist . |
| 17 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 18 | He is probably the most complete player I have ever seen and certainly the best front-row forward in the world . |
| 19 | I hope he will sign a new contract because I believe he is probably the best target man in Britain . |
| 20 | We have clear descriptions of Charles from his chroniclers and contemporaries ; he is probably the first powerful figure to emerge from the Dark Ages as a completely documented ruler . |
| 21 | He is probably the only adopted English child in these islands . |
| 22 | He is probably the best example of a belief often expressed about the presidency — that the man holding the office grows in stature to fit the highest position in the nation . |
| 23 | He is probably the John Archer who graduated MA from Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1626 . |
| 24 | He is probably the namesake ‘ of the king 's household ’ who entered Lincoln 's Inn in 1475 . |
| 25 | And watching Gordon Wilson 's maiden speech to the Dublin Senate , one reflected that he is probably the only man in Ulster who is able to announce his intention to talk to the IRA and who no-one would dare to denounce . |
| 26 | His lawyer reckons he is probably the youngest person on Death Row in the world . |
| 27 | Gilels has intelligence and fantasy in abundance ; yet without aiming at an Arrau-massiveness he is ultimately a more powerful protagonist than Brendel . |
| 28 | So he is already a celebrity in island cricket . |
| 29 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 30 | Of all the contenders Armiger is certainly best placed to impress , as he is already a Group One winner and was among the favourites for the Derby until injury forced him out of the Epsom showpiece . |