Example sentences of "he be [prep] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was at this stage in his life too disinclined to indulge in retrospection and perhaps too self-absorbed to consider his mother 's life and death in the context of his own life . |
| 2 | Fortunately for him , but more so for this kingdom , he was in this country at the onset of the Revolution and the destruction of the Bastille . |
| 3 | Ianthe never knew how to talk to him when he was in this sort of mood . |
| 4 | He was in this predicament by February 1615 when his letter to Castelli ( which in expanded form became the letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ) was examined by the Inquisition in Rome . |
| 5 | He was in this production of In Parenthesis and Burton has described a highlight from Thomas 's performance . |