Example sentences of "[been] in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 2 | The Membership List revealed he 'd been in his present parish for six years , was unmarried , had written a book , The Railways of Norfolk , 1890 to 1940 , published by Jarrolds , and was , in addition to being Vicar of St Clements Bestwick , chaplain to the Sisters of St Sylvester , East Soken , near Diss . |
| 3 | He had waited for her in the forests that fringed Tara , his mind filled with light and hope , his body more fiercely aware than ever it had been in his entire life . |
| 4 | But she had been in his strong arms before , and as agitation at her own weakness assailed her , so , while she still could , she fought to be free . |
| 5 | Although he had only been in his new job for a few days before the murder , Dave Pushell had already tried to imprint his personality on the office . |
| 6 | John Wildig is a research agriculturalist and a life-long railway enthusiast who would have been in his late teens during the period of the Beeching closures . |
| 7 | John Wildig is a research agriculturalist and a life-long railway enthusiast who would have been in his late teens during the period of the Beeching closures . |
| 8 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 9 | Carolyn , who had been in his English class for years , had always been quite insignificant . |
| 10 | If his father had lived he would now have been in his sixtieth year . |
| 11 | Howard is relieved and pleased that his younger self could pass such a test ; to have been in his own company for fifteen minutes or more , and to have been so opaque and convincing that he 'd seemed to be like anyone else . |
| 12 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 13 | I am not sure what Harold Brodkey may have been in his last incarnation , but he has now reached that most enviable of all earthly states , that of the American cult writer . |