Example sentences of "he [be] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since 'e 's bin in wiv that crowd from the Tunnel , though , 'e 's a changed boy . |
| 2 | As we saw just now in that passage in Isaiah 63 , the Spirit is the personal expression of God himself , and can be grieved : he is holy , not only the divine power but the moral character of God : he is God in action for the benefit of his people — notice how the Spirit is equated with the ‘ arm ’ of Yahweh , that is to say his saving activity . |
| 3 | Today he is commander in chief of the Khmer Rouge guerrilla army . |
| 4 | Princess Lurana has been abducted by the odious Sheikh ( Itallabout ? — Ed ) Sazabiss , who is also exerting every ounce of power to make a takeover bid ( ah , he 's Brucie in disguise ) on the world . |
| 5 | He 's gone back today and he 's house in Blackpool . |
| 6 | Here is a man , he 's commander in chief , he 's the president of the United States he 's faced with a , a recalcitrant and difficult general who was sabotaging the purposes of his campaign , extending the campaign beyond proper limits and the president has to show who 's boss , and he showed him who 's boss and he sacked him , great , presidential power in action . |
| 7 | He started off as doctor in the house , then he moved to doctor at sea and now he 's doctor in trouble , as a result of these Government policies . |
| 8 | For some part of the next three decades he was chaplain in London to Denzil , first Baron Holles of Ifield ( whose will he witnessed in 1670 ) , and to Sir John Maynard [ qq.v. ] , both parliamentarian veterans . |
| 9 | From 1908 till 1918 he was lecturer in metallurgy at Glasgow University , and became professor of metallurgy at the Royal Technical College , Glasgow , in 1918 . |
| 10 | From 1876 to 1891 he was lecturer in anatomy at the college , and in 1891 he was appointed dean and professor of pathology and bacteriology . |
| 11 | Yesterday , John Major celebrated his first year as Prime Minister but we know that he was Chancellor in Mrs. Thatcher 's Government in the latter part of it — |
| 12 | A social worker by training , his earlier career embraced social work for the deaf in Liverpool and Nottinghamshire and teaching at the North London Polytechnic , where he was tutor in charge of the course leading to a " Certificate in Deaf Studies " . |
| 13 | There is no point in looking for any improvement in the journal while he was second in command — there was none . |
| 14 | At the Times-Herald he was second in command to Mr Thomas Miller , the owner and proprietor of the newspaper . |
| 15 | You all so easily forget these names now , oh I do n't remember it , but the other , oh I remember old , eh mate of , he was second in command when I was in India , and he , he , he was a right character , he was a right chara |
| 16 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 17 | He received honours from Italy , Serbia , Montenegro , and the republic of San Marino , of which for a time he was consul in London . |
| 18 | One by one the modest properties of which he was landlord in County Mayo and Galway began to show a satisfactory return . |
| 19 | So long as he was solvent in law , he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts . |
| 20 | A few years later Enright came to see me when I was working in Kuala Lumpur and he was Professor in Singapore . |
| 21 | He was director in Shillong , Simla , and Calcutta ; then in 1933 he was appointed surveyor-general and held this position until his retirement in 1937 . |
| 22 | He was sheriff in Cumberland in 1532–3 and 1541–2 . |
| 23 | He was Agent in Castlebar , 1941–1946 and he served as Agent in Navan from 26th June 1946 , when he was appointed on a salary of £640 per annum , until his retirement on his 65th birthday , 1st February 1952 . |
| 24 | Was he worried that she 'd finally found her proof that he was hand in glove with Harry Martin ? |
| 25 | He was priest in charge at St Patrick 's two streets away and with St Patrick 's came the job of father confessor to the Priory . |
| 26 | He was conductor in Noddfa Chapel , Taibach , which we all attended . |
| 27 | Jeffrey said yesterday the system was unfair even if he was 39p in credit as incorrectly stated in Lady Hooper 's letter to Dr Mowlam . |
| 28 | Down went Alvar Salvadores in great haste , and ordered a bell to be rung which was a signal for two hundred knights to make ready ; for the history saith , that the Cid , by reason that he was alway in war , had appointed such signals for his people , that they knew when one hundred were called for , and when two , and so forth . |