Example sentences of "he [be] the [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the man in possession . |
| 2 | He 's the man in form ; 3 goals in 3 games . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's the architect in charge of the development , you know ? ’ |
| 4 | But he 's the captain in charge , he 's the No1 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been telling everybody he 's the damsel in distress . |
| 6 | ‘ But at least you had the sense to realise Charsky 's performance on the Neva embankment was a dream , and that he was the man in bed with Anna . |
| 7 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 8 | News of the discovery spread to Maurice Barley at Nottingham University , where he was the tutor in archaeology in the Extra-Mural Department . |
| 9 | He was the equivalent in science of a Nobel prizewinner today . |
| 10 | He travelled on to Australia where he was the guest in Adelaide of the Lord Chief Justice and his wife who were fellow Methodists . |