Example sentences of "[vb base] he [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I expect he was like all the rest indoors , could n't find his way out of a paper bag .
2 I expect he was after a squirrel or a bird up there ; he 's a regular hunter .
3 He 's so quiet now you forget he 's in the house .
4 In trusting God we are living out our assumptions , putting into practice all that we say he is in theory , so that who God is and what he has done can make the difference in every part of our lives .
5 Despite the tough measures of May 10th , the opinion polls say he is by far France 's favourite politician .
6 Unless they say he 's on the bottle .
7 Of course they say he 's beneath us . ’
8 ‘ They say he 's in Australia disguised as a kangaroo . ’
9 ‘ You say he 's in Streatley now ? ’
10 To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best .
11 They say he was aged 28 to 32-years-old with dark hair .
12 Human rights group say he was in charge of Bolivian death squads responsible for murdering hundreds of journalists , political and labour leaders , and church officials .
13 The casualty rate so far was no more than might have been expected from the hazardous nature of the operation , and although he could not , in all honesty , say he was in command of the whole ship , he at least held the strategic upper hand .
14 I imagine he 's in good health .
15 I imagine he was at home with his highly attractive wife . ’
16 I hope he 's in the club and everything , they all try and out do each other .
17 In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’
18 So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme .
19 Especially if you consider he was on the trail of the man he believes had his family abducted and almost certainly murdered .
20 ‘ We suspect he is in France at our embassy . ’
21 I suspect he was in the Tower not because he could count the days but was privy to secrets which could rock thrones and topple crowns ! ’
22 I remember him being in a pub a while back and a woman saying to him , What 's your wife going to do ?
23 He just is , just totally different to what I remember him being like .
24 And I say let's get Terry Wilson to do it because you know he 's on the
25 And I know he 's behind your meetings with that girl .
26 ‘ It was the shine that attracted him , you know he 's like a magpie that way .
27 I like it you know he 's like a parent is n't he ?
28 I know he 's inside me . ’
29 ‘ I know he 's in the Castle of Zenda — but where ? ’
30 Yes , you see the thing is one appointment can cock up your whole system , because if it like you said , if one , if a customer does happen to call in and say , look I need somebody in here desperately , when do you want it , when it 's smack in the middle , it 's not the other side of the world , but you know he 's in Nuneaton or something , well you still have to go out and see him .
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