Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he followed her from the room , he said , ‘ Has he been using any new chemicals ? ’ |
| 2 | Had he been facing any of the big cat family , with their formidable armoury of fang , claw , power and speed , he would , for all his martial arts training , have been in with very little chance of survival , let alone victory . |
| 3 | So erm w if Had he been doing digging graves when he was in Suffolk ? |
| 4 | Who had he been making beautiful ? |
| 5 | Can your Centre Forward put one in against Fatty Phil , or will he be playing Left Back in the changing rooms ? |
| 6 | Why should he be lying asleep when I 'm working to try and save us ? |
| 7 | Will he be having any talks with the Cairns group of countries , which involves major food producers such as Australia and New Zealand and is dedicated to getting rid of all subsidies , tariffs and quotas which put extra costs on food , and getting good-quality , cheap food back on the shelves — policies from which our farmers have absolutely nothing to fear ? |
| 8 | How could he be making small talk when their bodies were pressed together like this ? |
| 9 | If he were taking several of you out why did n't you say to one of the other girls why do n't you come ? |
| 10 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 11 | He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox . |
| 12 | By the time they had risen above the storm , there was a slight smile on his lips , as if he were thinking pleasant thoughts . |
| 13 | He had all the ladders were out the van , and he were using all George 's tools . |
| 14 | The ‘ miscellaneous ’ sounded weary , as though he were growing tired of the proceedings already . |
| 15 | When we were talking to the builders tha he were putting that in . |
| 16 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |
| 17 | even though they had that on , with having to march and run , and he were doing these fifteen miles half , well sort of jogging and running and with the forty |
| 18 | looked like a great big piano , you know , with like the buttons and he were doing this and they 've got every country within range on the wa on whatever it was , wall or a gantry , and if that was n't too , too good he , he were doing something and it come up . |
| 19 | Did you see t what do you make of that blackie with that lovely lovely young girl , pretty as a picture , and he were doing this round her and leaning back , and his great big lips ooh ooh ! |
| 20 | jester let his head sag lower and lower as if he were falling asleep . |
| 21 | Then he were having some Aunts come from er his Aunts from er Manchester . |
| 22 | He giggled girlishly , as if he were contemplating some impromptu lobotomies , and the beard , which flowed down over the steering wheel , rustled suggestively in the hollow socket of the speedometer . |
| 23 | And everyone knows that really he is advising medieval kings and nineteenth-century Prime Ministers . |
| 24 | He is wearing white shorts , and laughter lines run in deep creases by the sides of his eyes . |
| 25 | He is wearing another crumpled three-piece suit , and another tie which sags to reveal his brass collar-stud . |
| 26 | He knows he is hearing another complex , incompetent lie now . |
| 27 | Clinton has to promise he will create jobs , even though he is firing thousands of civil servants and military personnel . |
| 28 | But he is leaking another message that he is not confident he has succeeded . |
| 29 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 30 | He knows he is acting contrary to his fundamental principle or ideal , but the standard of the ideal is not lowered or compromised on that account . |