Example sentences of "he be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he would have done considerably better had he been granted anything approaching equal access to the media and had tricks not been played against him . |
| 2 | Had he been expressing his doubts about her to Matt ? |
| 3 | ‘ How has he been taking it ? ’ |
| 4 | What the hell has he been telling you ? ’ |
| 5 | He pays the small amount and in fact I keep on meaning at the back of my brain to get hold of him and say has he been paying it . |
| 6 | Yet only recently has he been affirming what he sees as the Bank 's main job : to attack outright poverty — measured , for instance , in crude terms of calorific intake . |
| 7 | ‘ What has he been asking you , Massimo ? |
| 8 | Has he been hassling you ? |
| 9 | Has he been having anything on the side ? ’ |
| 10 | Had he been following us all this time . |
| 11 | His exclamation endorsed her suspicion , but why should he be regarding her with such a look of furious triumph on his face ? |
| 12 | After all , would he be telling her all this now if this meeting had not been arranged ? |
| 13 | Would he be given it ? |
| 14 | Would he be joining it ? |
| 15 | ‘ And when will he be joining us ? ’ |
| 16 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 17 | Will he be paying his subscription to both clubs ? |
| 18 | I would even say something nice about his new-fangled haircut if he were to say something hopeful to the London borough of Newham . |
| 19 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , yes , ’ he murmured , his brow furrowed as though he were taking her question seriously , ‘ I bought some — ’ |
| 21 | Out came the remainder of the hambone , the cheese , the loaf , an unopened bottle of wine , then the blond man paused with his hand in the sack as though he were holding something . |
| 22 | He stood straight and still , breathing hard as if he were steeling himself to do something . |
| 23 | Aye , she were washing them or summat and he were annoying her so she threw them all . |
| 24 | Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour . |
| 25 | An army consisted , then , primarily of knights , with archers and other infantry as auxiliaries of growing importance ; and a king also needed to garrison a number of castles and towns if he were to control his subjects and keep his enemies at bay . |
| 26 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 27 | as if he were touching her , the tips of her nipples contracted into tight buds of awareness , pointing tell-tale peaks beneath the thin fabric . |
| 28 | It was as if he were touching her , physically caressing her with that dark , gold-flecked gaze . |
| 29 | He felt precisely as if he were hiding something from her . |
| 30 | Maxim hoped it sounded as if he were hiding something more than the fact that Blagg had n't been able to tell what they were . |