Example sentences of "he be [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | They stood or sat in groups on all the branches around Little Billy , staring at him as though he were someone from outer space . |
2 | Daughter of a brilliant and beautiful mother , who died giving birth , the gauche and unconfident Catherine Sloper lives in the shadow of her rich father 's thinly veiled contempt … when the young handsome and charming Morris Townsend falls in love with her , the father thinks he is nothing but a fortune seeking bounder . |
3 | But he is nothing of a nostalgic . |
4 | But I told you , he is nothing to me . ’ |
5 | ‘ He is nothing like the gigolos he plays in the movies . |
6 | Describing his photograph , Mr Ashdown said : ‘ He is one in a row of 150 , crammed six rows to a cattle shed in the baking Bosnian heat . |
7 | He is something of a monetarist and , as such , the devaluation of wages , not to mention the debasement of people , does n't seem to worry him . |
8 | He is likely to knock you off your feet just being led across the yard if he can find anything to spook at , and when it comes to removing rugs he is something of a Houdini . |
9 | As he is something of a carpenter ( he built his own sail boat for use on the Chesapeake ) , he found it simple enough to take off the right-angled corners and substitute curves . |
10 | In his own way he is something of an expert on the private lives of actresses . |
11 | After the Malvinas war he is something of a hero . |
12 | In this respect he is something like a general on a battlefield — except that the battle never comes to an end . |
13 | If he is anything like me , he will have been struck by three things . |
14 | He says he 's nothing but a nuisance . |
15 | My mother , who came from a staunchly ‘ church ’ family , used to express her antipathy when she often declared , ‘ He 's nothing but a chapel dodger , ’ and it 's difficult to describe the scorn that she would put into the phrase . |
16 | ‘ He 's nothing to me , nothing ! ’ |
17 | ‘ He 's nothing to me and I 'm sick of you prying into my personal life . ’ |
18 | He 's everything to me . |
19 | In short he 's something of a crossover artist ; he clearly feels as comfortable borrowing from the past as he does with a more modern approach . |
20 | And yet , the history of the Lemonheads — in which , five albums down the line , he 's the only constant — suggests he 's something of a control freak , far more fastidious than he seems . |
21 | He 's something of a hermit by nature and imagined he could cope with it all by himself , apart from getting in labour when necessary . ’ |
22 | . He 's something like vicar but he 's a bit stouter . |
23 | He 's something like this , there my brother . |
24 | He 's something in the government , I guess . |
25 | And if he 's anything like this guy he 's all go |
26 | Well if he 's anything like last week he wo n't be ! |
27 | I ca n't remember his name but he was something of a latecomer to the band . |
28 | He was something of a mystery , which intrigued the locals . |
29 | He was something of an experimentalist , being particularly interested in glanders ( he claimed success in some cases from treatment with cantharides ) and in the circulatory system . |
30 | It was one of the weirdest graveyards he had seen — and he was something of a connoisseur . |