Example sentences of "he [be] [prep] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is of course in title the under-butler , as you say . |
| 2 | He is at present in exile in Magadan and due to be released in December 1984 . |
| 3 | He is on vacation in London with daughter Sally ( Thora Birch ) and wife Cathy — played by Anne Archer who seems increasingly typecast as the loyal spouse . |
| 4 | He 's on £300,000 in Portugal , but for how long ? |
| 5 | He 's a squat little plumber and he 's from Brooklyn in New York . |
| 6 | In visiting Susannah Taylor whenever he was on circuit in East Anglia the barrister and antislavery literary journalist , Henry Crabb Robinson , was in part resuming the connections of his youth . |
| 7 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the men involved was the same man who asked Anthony to contact MI5 in London when he was on holiday in Mallorca earlier this summer . ’ |
| 9 | When World War II broke out he was on holiday in Austria . |
| 10 | He was on holiday in Spain when the producers asked him to return early to reshoot one or two scenes . |
| 11 | A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain . |
| 12 | Former farmer Michael Bell organised a race for porkers at the county show after seeing hog racing while he was on holiday in Canada . |
| 13 | Among the papers sent to me by Mr Beltrami were letters from Meehan , written to him almost daily when he was on remand in Barlinnie Prison , Glasgow , awaiting trial . |
| 14 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 15 | Yesterday he was at home in Cheltenham , Glos , after specialists decided to wait before unsticking his eyes . |
| 16 | In 1581 he travelled to France with Richard and Francis Edwardes of Chirkland , and he was with Richard in Rome on 6 November 1582 . |
| 17 | The Minister for Public Works in the outgoing government , Giovanni Prandini , a Christian Democrat , was on June 12 warned by Rome magistrates that he was under investigation in connection with the allocation of public funds for the construction of a motorway in the Puglian province of Táranto . |
| 18 | He was in Tobago in May this year with us for my daughter 's wedding and is planning a month or two in Canada later in the year . |
| 19 | Illness overtook him and delayed him until August , but he was in England in September . |
| 20 | But by the 26th , he was in ward in Dalkeith , and during the next two months was moved from there to Seton , and then to Blackness and St Andrews before finally being released on lo April . |
| 21 | From 1675 to 1679 Locke travelled and studied in France ; and from 1683 to 1689 he was in exile in Holland , his political views and associations having made it necessary for him to flee England . |
| 22 | Then of course he was in hospital in Assam for some weeks . |
| 23 | He was in hospital in Holland and simply took off one night . |