Example sentences of "he [be] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E was in a fire an' they 've took 'im ter Guy 's ‘ Ospital as a precaution . |
| 2 | The lads that are on strike well I mean you 'd think it 'd be vice versa him being like a blackleg er that 's er they 'd be agitating but he 's vice versa . |
| 3 | I remember him being in a pub a while back and a woman saying to him , What 's your wife going to do ? |
| 4 | Sure , he is told , steady travel can make a person feel like that for an instant ; yet it is obvious that short-term memory for him is like a labyrinth . |
| 5 | Everyone around him is like a member of the family . |
| 6 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 7 | ‘ Just a few minutes alone with him was like a tonic . |
| 8 | She wondered what his comment would have been had he been in a position to make one . |
| 9 | He also knew that never in his life would he be in a position to own one like it . |
| 10 | When will he be in a position to make a firm announcement about the placing of an order for the fourth Trident submarine ? |
| 11 | He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham . |
| 12 | For a moment he did not know where he was : the darkness lay upon him like a leaden weight , crushing him as if he were under a ton of river-water . |
| 13 | ‘ To have gone to such lengths to destroy — ’ Meredith heard his muttered expletive , but he said no more — just began to pace the room with a restless air as if he were in a prison and desperate to get out . |
| 14 | He felt as if he were in a trance , speaking the words of someone else ; the pressure of this rare ocean heave of happiness had re-baptised him , and the words came from out of the air . |
| 15 | By nightfall , Alec felt as though he were inside a fort under attack . |
| 16 | Jon Gittens was the main victim of Rosenthal 's latest attempt to convince Souness he is worth a place in Liverpool 's starting line-up . |
| 17 | He is trying to joke , she senses he is at a loss for the first time that afternoon . |
| 18 | A Savage Orc shaman receives an additional magic card if he is with a Mob of Savage Orcs . |
| 19 | He is with a priest from Canada and doing great work . |
| 20 | Michael was taken to Darlington 's Memorial hospital with serious head injuries and later transferred to the intensive care unit at Middlesbrough general , where he is on a life support machine . |
| 21 | He is on a yacht , we can go there by a launch . |
| 22 | Speaking from America where he is on a business trip , McCauley said : ‘ This is the first time we have refused a request from him . |
| 23 | ‘ I will not accept it until he is on a mortuary slab . |
| 24 | Even the devil is God 's devil : he is on a chain held by God , even though the chain is a long one . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , just as he is as a player , Gazza is in a different class . |
| 26 | However , if the broker fills an order left with him by his client or deals on a discretionary basis , he is as a matter of law dealing on both sides of the " client " contract ; he is agent for the client , in that he binds the client to the contract , and at the same time he is technically the client 's counterparty . |
| 27 | The thing about Kennedy is that every time I hear he has done something outrageous I think ‘ Oh God ! ’ , but then I spend a few hours working with him and leave thinking what a good heart he has and how serious he is as a musician . |
| 28 | But there seems no room for any notion of the decorous in Olson 's ‘ objectism ’ , any more than there is room for it in the lawless world of the Cantos , or in Pound himself when he is without a master to translate , whose example makes him surpass himself . |
| 29 | Even though he is without a win for over four years , Brand could hardly be described as a struggler . |
| 30 | The fact is that Jackie is so fully occupied , every minute of the day , every day of the year , that he is under a sort of compulsion to do everything , including talk , faster than anyone else . |