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

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1 130 and H167 seem to have made good starts , but Z114 better watch out since before long he may be in H167 's dirty wind .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 If he does not do so , he may be in breach of his contract and liable to the parties in damages for the consequences .
6 So he should be in high spirits now ; he 'll be in three airports before the day 's over .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 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 .
11 A mini psychopath , I thought , and maybe not so mini , at that , if Xanthe thought he should be in jail .
12 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 .
13 Keegan said : ‘ Franz thought he should be in the team to show what he could do .
14 Jim Martin looks like he should be in Thin Lizzy .
15 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 .
16 " He should be in hospital , " Patrick said immediately .
17 ‘ If one of you is a police constable , surely he should be in uniform ? ’
18 He should be in the A and E , ’ Eva says .
19 He should be in the mad-house , which worries me , because I , to follow the point that councillor Taylor 's made .
20 But really he should be in Germany
21 So he should be in the set below us .
22 If it 's on the tank he must be in the lav , he never takes food in there with him . ’
23 He must be in one of the containers down there . ’
24 ‘ Oh Christ , he must be in one of the paddocks or the garden . ’
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 I suppose er , he must be in the top ten of all-time great British footballers , would n't you say ?
30 He must be in one of the Coptic parts of the city . ’
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