Example sentences of "he be [pron] [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 | His own dismissal of deconstruction as a merely textual practice means that he is himself at a loss when faced with the complex conceptual dialectics of the same and the other . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In his own way he is something of an expert on the private lives of actresses . |
| 12 | After the Malvinas war he is something of a hero . |
| 13 | In this respect he is something like a general on a battlefield — except that the battle never comes to an end . |
| 14 | If he is anything like me , he will have been struck by three things . |
| 15 | He says he 's nothing but a nuisance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's nothing to me , nothing ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He 's nothing to me and I 'm sick of you prying into my personal life . ’ |
| 19 | He 's everything to me . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | . He 's something like vicar but he 's a bit stouter . |
| 24 | He 's something like this , there my brother . |
| 25 | He 's something in the government , I guess . |
| 26 | And if he 's anything like this guy he 's all go |
| 27 | Well if he 's anything like last week he wo n't be ! |
| 28 | He 's he in greengrocery in Roehampton , and the third one who is younger to me , elder to the third one , he is in Canada . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember his name but he was something of a latecomer to the band . |
| 30 | He was something of a mystery , which intrigued the locals . |