Example sentences of "he [was/were] in [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel crouched against the wall , watching him as though he were in truth the wolf her imagination had conjured up , and waiting until her fluttering pulse had steadied before moving again . |
| 2 | The document states that Richard Walter Jenkins shall ‘ absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the surname of the parent and shall bear the surname of the adopter and shall be held out to the world and in all respects treated as if he were in fact the child of the adopter ’ . |
| 3 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 4 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 5 | no a couple of weeks later , erm , we , we went on a big route marching stuff and he was in agony the old stubble |
| 6 | He was in effect the news " general " and I was the most junior of his three assistants . |
| 7 | He said " When the employee was in the Kingsbridge office he was in effect the Kingsbridge office . |