Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] be in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 2 | Is he ashamed of the fact that every month he has been in office reading standards of seven-year-olds have fallen ? |
| 3 | On a personal level , the calm and cool Monie has also swept all before him , winning the Coach of the Year award every season he has been in Britain . |
| 4 | In earlier life he had been in Canada and it is certain that at least some youthful potential emigrants to Canada were inspired by his accounts of life there . |
| 5 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 6 | I just wondered , colleagues if Azil Nadir of Polly Peck fame currently I understand sunbathing in Northern Cyprus would be prepared to say how proud he is to be associated with the Tories of course in saying that I do include Michael Mates , and I just wondered whether or not this watch he sent was in fact a Timex watch . |
| 7 | Father Donnelly was also there , looking plumper these days , but still the same cheerful personality he had been in Brooklyn . |
| 8 | But the exception he contemplated was in respect of a particular type of statute , namely , a statute creating criminal liability in which the question was whether or not a guilty intention was required to create liability . |
| 9 | The last time he had been in Athens , when the group that called themselves ‘ November 17th ’ had hit the Procter & Gamble offices with an anti-tank rocket , he had not been admitted to the presence of this big man . |
| 10 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 11 | Patrick says the last time he ran was in Gloucester was in driving wind and rain |
| 12 | He said : ‘ He has maintained a silence throughout the time he has been in custody . |
| 13 | But then again , that 's the first time he 's been in ring since |
| 14 | At this stage he had been in contention behind McCallen and Dunlop and even after his restart he still clawed his way back into the leading group . |