Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the longer she spent with Nathan Bryce the harder it was to accept that for the next four weeks her only escape from him would be in sleep . |
| 2 | 130 and H167 seem to have made good starts , but Z114 better watch out since before long he may be in H167 's dirty wind . |
| 3 | He must have a full knowledge of the local Bye-laws , local Acts of Parliament and Standing Orders of the council , so that he may be in a position at any time to advise the local authority on their functions and powers . |
| 4 | Word is out that he may be in the same class as Chris Armstrong , sold to Palace for £1m after just a handful of games . |
| 5 | We do this by assuming that it is in fact cooperative , and then asking ourselves what possible connection there could be between the location of Bill and the location of a yellow VW , and thus arrive at the suggestion ( which B effectively conveys ) that , if Bill has a yellow VW , he may be in Sue 's house . |
| 6 | If he does not do so , he may be in breach of his contract and liable to the parties in damages for the consequences . |
| 7 | So he should be in high spirits now ; he 'll be in three airports before the day 's over . |
| 8 | These considerations explain why to say of someone that he is entitled to have authority means that he should be in a position of real power and then he will have legitimate authority . |
| 9 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
| 10 | ‘ He was enormously complex and he had an almost inner pain about who he was sexually , what his role was , where he should be in life . |
| 11 | Unilever has high expectations of its booming cosmetics business , and if Burgmans delivers the goods , he should be in line for one of the coveted jobs on the so-called chief executive committee which governs the Anglo-Dutch enterprise . |
| 12 | A mini psychopath , I thought , and maybe not so mini , at that , if Xanthe thought he should be in jail . |
| 13 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 14 | Keegan said : ‘ Franz thought he should be in the team to show what he could do . |
| 15 | Jim Martin looks like he should be in Thin Lizzy . |
| 16 | One Afro-Caribbean woman described how she felt that she was never given a choice of provision for her son , and objected to being told he should be in a specialist nursery for his own good . |
| 17 | " He should be in hospital , " Patrick said immediately . |
| 18 | ‘ If one of you is a police constable , surely he should be in uniform ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He should be in the A and E , ’ Eva says . |
| 20 | He should be in the mad-house , which worries me , because I , to follow the point that councillor Taylor 's made . |
| 21 | But really he should be in Germany |
| 22 | So he should be in the set below us . |
| 23 | If it 's on the tank he must be in the lav , he never takes food in there with him . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He must be in one of the containers down there . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Oh Christ , he must be in one of the paddocks or the garden . ’ |
| 26 | She had lost one son — lost him truly , for she realized that he must be in Ireland now — but she was determined that she would not lose a daughter . |
| 27 | That is rather a ponderous way of saying that no one in his right mind doubts the truth of my assertion about the states in which Bill will be found , because there are two of them and he must be in one or the other . |
| 28 | For the discourse analyst , on the other hand , the more personal and particular the occasion for the participants , the more limited and circumspect he must be in his interpretation . |
| 29 | He must be in his early forties , Belinda decided , while Faye , she knew was thirty-eight — fairly old to be having a first child , which added a greater sense of urgency and importance to the task of keeping her pregnancy on track . |
| 30 | I suppose er , he must be in the top ten of all-time great British footballers , would n't you say ? |