Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He seemed to be up to his fat neck in this .
2 How comfortable it would be up against his warm back .
3 Torn between pity , anger and his impatience to be back on his proper job , he said more roughly :
4 Couples will be back to his aggressive best next year with his blistering long game allied to the best short-iron play on the US tour .
5 Thanks to a decision by a federal jury on May 11th , Leonard Jeffries , a pioneer of this branch of scholarship , should soon be back in his old job as head of black studies at the City University of New York .
6 The player wants the story to continue with the Republic and in the World Cup — and he will be back in his favourite position against Bingham 's boys come next Wednesday .
7 He was longing , as he told Jardine , to be back among his beloved lyre-birds , by now in the last stages of their extraordinary seasonal plumage .
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