Example sentences of "he be [verb] [det] " 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 | ‘ Has he been left any money by somebody ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 7 | He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox . |
| 8 | Before this interrogation , he had reluctantly agreed to allow his wife to conduct it , being unable to argue against her contention that if he were to perform that duty , his questioning would inevitably be biased in the girl 's favour . |
| 9 | If he were to ask many people in the north-east where they come from , they would say ’ the north-east ’ . |
| 10 | He had all the ladders were out the van , and he were using all George 's tools . |
| 11 | We have also made it absolutely clear that we will ensure that our deterrent is effective and absolutely credible , and that it puts real fear into any potential aggressor about the damage that he could suffer if he were to attack this country . |
| 12 | When we were talking to the builders tha he were putting that in . |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he were to convert all loans under the social fund to grants , as has been promised by the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) , the cost would be about £130 million and would greatly prejudice the operation of the social fund as it now works ? |
| 14 | As to the visit to Merstham , I had hoped that if he were to come all that way , he ought to see something of the country , as it was then still of an unspoilt rural character and in autumn especially beautiful . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | Then he were having some Aunts come from er his Aunts from er Manchester . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the preface to his Guide he claims that ‘ all ( his drawings ) were entirely finished while the subject was before him , for he conceives that studies are lessened in value by being retouched in the house ’ ; but a Miss Weeton who knew him well , and was godmother to one of his children , says that ‘ he is employed all summer in taking sketches , and all the winter in finishing them . |
| 21 | He is wearing another crumpled three-piece suit , and another tie which sags to reveal his brass collar-stud . |
| 22 | He knows he is hearing another complex , incompetent lie now . |
| 23 | But he is leaking another message that he is not confident he has succeeded . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At the start of the move phase the player declares how much steam he is using this turn — in effect how high a pressure he wants to run the boiler at . |
| 26 | Mathematics is a wonderful subject but the physicist has always to ask himself whether he is using those mathematical constructs which are truly appropriate to the way the world is . |
| 27 | We must distinguish the belief that a speaker has about the words he is using from the belief that he is using those words to express . |
| 28 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
| 29 | Its chief executive , Neville Bain , said he is seeing many more inquiries from retailers currently buying from Far Eastern producers , while some continental suppliers which had been undercutting British producers are being forced to increase prices . |
| 30 | She looks sideways at Howard to see how he is taking this . |