Example sentences of "he be [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore have some sympathy with the New Ager , but I can not understand why he is in such a hurry to rebuild his world on foundational beliefs which have already crippled millions upon millions of fellow human beings . |
| 2 | Thing is that he 's in er he 's in such a pickle , he 's doing what I can understand him doing it cos I 'd do it , he 's kind of just putting it off having to sort it out . |
| 3 | Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity . |
| 4 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 5 | When I took him in he was at such a stage he had to go in in a wheelchair . |
| 6 | It seemed that in a school where he was in such a minority , his language and ethnicity had been defined as particular problems requiring the rather Draconian solution of Statementing . |
| 7 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 8 | Swift is normally the most phlegmatic of characters but he was in such a state of fluster on that occasion that he missed touch and found Smith instead . |
| 9 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 10 | That 's why he was in such a rush about the will … ’ |