Example sentences of "he [be] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if he were in two minds about something and must select his words with care . |
| 2 | He is in two minds . |
| 3 | He 's in two sizes , eight inches and thirteen inches . |
| 4 | Well I thought he was on eight days then . |
| 5 | Whilst I was behind Desmond he was on two engines and landed heavily ; one of his engines came adrift and preceded him along the flarepath . |
| 6 | I thought he was on two days . |
| 7 | Well I thought he was on two days . |
| 8 | Thought he was on two days four times . |
| 9 | At one time he was on 25 committees , over and above those within the University , and was chairman of many of these . |
| 10 | He was for nine years Consultant Architect to Llandaff Cathedral until his retirement . |
| 11 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 12 | He was for 55 years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin . |
| 13 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |
| 14 | So the let him come in the day , two days he was off two months , Christmas time , |
| 15 | He was within 18 months of retirement and has since been elected to the UK Central Council for Nursing , the profession 's regulatory body . |
| 16 | From our ( disad ) vantage point 50 yards from the touchline , it looked like Bull 's goal ( well he was within two yards ) . |
| 17 | He was within three yards of Laidlaw when the Lieutenant shot him . |
| 18 | He was among 100 prisoners granted a remission of sentence to mark the 10th anniversary of Kolingba 's taking office . |
| 19 | Emburey 's last Test was against Australia at Old Trafford in 1989 , the game in which it was announced that he was among 16 rebels who had decided to tour South Africa and accept an international ban . |
| 20 | He was among three friends to be rescued . |
| 21 | For a second he was in two minds about it . |
| 22 | Do you know , he was in two minds about accepting ? |
| 23 | As ever , he was in two minds about Clarac 's value to the project . |
| 24 | and second of all he 'd known her since they were at school , well he was like ten years older , but something like that any way oh brilliant this is back on Jack The Ripper that |