Example sentences of "he be [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can he be this world class player … when he is a winger but cant even cross the ball ? ? |
| 2 | ‘ So I thought if he were that kind of driver I would not get involved . |
| 3 | That was another thing — it did n't help her to maintain her own sense of proportion when the rest of the world treated Luke Hunter as if he were some kind of royalty … |
| 4 | It was the odd way he was looking at her , almost as if he were some kind of predatory animal waiting to pounce . |
| 5 | Behind her Rune remained silent , his presence oppressive as if he were some Superman radiating a special kind of beam which could put the world to rights if only one believed in it . |
| 6 | How dare this man demand his credentials as if he were some arriviste from the Colonies whose background had to be sniffed out and tracked down because his foreground was presumed to be so suspect ! |
| 7 | He treated her to a brief flash of his identity card before tucking it away out of sight ; people were still gaping at him as if he were some alien from outer space . |
| 8 | ‘ There 'll be an outcry , bring up a human baby as though he were some sort of experimental animal ! |
| 9 | It is important not to interpret the phrase that Jesus had felt some power go out of him as though he were some sort of ‘ divine energy source ’ of healing . |
| 10 | He grazed through the streets as if he were some sort of god , head and shoulders above everyone . |
| 11 | Cullam and he were both lorry drivers , both lived in council accommodation , but that was all they had in common . |
| 12 | Zuckerman Unbound ( 1981 ) reaches its climax at one of Roth 's frequent funerals — in this case , that of Zuckerman 's father — after which Henry charges Nathan with killing their parent by writing ‘ that book ’ , the liberated Carnovsky , and with believing like the bastard he is that fiction does n't have consequences . |
| 13 | ‘ He is that kind of Dharjee , ’ the head had said , when Robert asked him about this . |
| 14 | He is all armpit hair , muscle , vest top and big beaming smile . |
| 15 | He is such fun , the intelligent person 's humorous read à la David Lodge ( Penguin has used the same cover illustrator , Paul Cox ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I do n't know if he is this year . |
| 18 | I do n't know what happened to Dowd — my bum-boy I think you called him , Alice — but wherever he is this thing took his place . ’ |
| 19 | He is more poet than academic , or professional religious , and it is precisely because of his wilful integrity and gift for language that he is able to share a sense of the actual process — frequently frustrating — of the practice of spiritual discipline which for all the mystics is the weapon in the battle against the forces of darkness that self-evidently threaten to destroy human fulfilment . |
| 20 | ‘ A person is qualified to succeed the tenant under a secure tenancy if he occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home at the time of the tenant 's death and either — ( a ) he is the tenant 's spouse , or ( b ) he is another member of the tenant 's family and has resided with the tenant throughout the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death ; … |
| 21 | ‘ He is another animal entirely . ’ |
| 22 | He is another woman 's husband now and to lust after him is sinful . " |
| 23 | But he is another reason why you should be careful . ’ |
| 24 | His documentary ( pretentiously entitled Vaughanssaga ) is blighted by his belief that he is some kind of Broadcasting Artist . |
| 25 | ‘ You have only to look at him to see he is some sort of a relation , ’ she said sharply . |
| 26 | he 's that bloke , that kid out of Grange Hill |
| 27 | He 's that type of guy . |
| 28 | though they do n't know whether he 's that type , you know , , you know he 's |
| 29 | No no he 's that year older |
| 30 | Only the Persian engineer with the sloppy eyes does n't see me as exotic , because he 's that way himself . ’ |