Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 2 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Is he ashamed of the fact that every month he has been in office reading standards of seven-year-olds have fallen ? |
| 5 | For the last week he 's been in a hospice with terminal cancer . |
| 6 | Books dealing mainly with science and the occult lined the walls , bits of engineering projects littered the table , his ultra-feminine dresses hung in one corner and the printing press of the transsexual/transvestite magazine he edited was in the other corner . |
| 7 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was sixty-four now , but as a young man he had been in the army and seen action on the North-West Frontier . |
| 10 | First there 's Gary Harris … four seasons in a row he 's been in the English boys team … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | During most of his life he has been in close touch with village life in different parts of the country . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Father Donnelly was also there , looking plumper these days , but still the same cheerful personality he had been in Brooklyn . |
| 16 | The answer he got was in the line that Frank looked uninspired in training ( well as ‘ inspired ’ as Deano looks from time to time in the games i guess Deano most look — very — inspired in training ) . |
| 17 | However , since he left school he has been in no further trouble with the police and , although unemployed , remains happily at home with his family . |
| 18 | Mr Prescott told the court that on the fateful evening Boxing Day last year he had been in the pub with Mr Maltby and another friend . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 21 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 22 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 25 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |
| 26 | Patrick says the last time he ran was in Gloucester was in driving wind and rain |
| 27 | He said : ‘ He has maintained a silence throughout the time he has been in custody . |
| 28 | But then again , that 's the first time he 's been in ring since |
| 29 | By the atmosphere he had been in which , she knew , was pure poison . |
| 30 | 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 . |