Example sentences of "he was in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in all the dailies , and you probably saw the TV coverage . |
| 2 | There he was in all his splendour , gazing blithely out of society-column illustrations , going into or coming out of some swank nightspot or other , with a gorgeous girl on either arm . |
| 3 | He was in all the conservation groups when he was a student , but his big thing was animals . ’ |
| 4 | But , I expect erm as he was in all last year I should think he |
| 5 | Whatever the reason he was in that room it was n't for food . |
| 6 | This is partly I suppose what made us seem like a destination to him ; he was in that simple sense ready to arrive , ready to get somewhere and rest there for the night . |
| 7 | ‘ He was in that train , the one that crashed last night , the derailment south of Kendal . |
| 8 | It was useless to argue with him while he was in that mood , she told herself . |
| 9 | He was in that sense truly a presidential candidate for the 1980s . |
| 10 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , sir , it 's not so irrelevant because while he was in that curacy there was some sort of row about a boy in the youth club . |
| 12 | ‘ He was in that car down on the promenade . |
| 13 | He had the ability , when he was in that teasing mood , to make her forget all the worrying unhappy things in life , and just be gloriously glad to be alive . |
| 14 | He was in that erm what was it called ? |
| 15 | Ha , he was in that too . |
| 16 | he was in that , yeah ! |
| 17 | JH : Moving on to another great love of yours , Franz Schubert ; I have always felt that he was in many ways cut short in his prime , almost as thought he was on the verge of finding himself creatively . |
| 18 | In fact , he was in many respects an enigma . |
| 19 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 20 | Basil Rocke 's instincts were those of a countryman , as is most of his imagery , yet he was in many ways a very urban character . |
| 21 | He was in many ways the wrong choice in the harsh atmosphere of 1952 . |
| 22 | He was in many ways a remarkable Prime Minister , although there were obviously faults — and some grave faults — that history alone will assess in determining whether or not he ranks among the greats . |
| 23 | He was in many ways far ahead of his compatriots in his attitude to these original occupants of Tasmania . |
| 24 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 25 | Swift is normally the most phlegmatic of characters but he was in such a state of fluster on that occasion that he missed touch and found Smith instead . |
| 26 | Sometimes he was in such pain , he could hardly hobble up the yard . |
| 27 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 28 | He was in such pain . |
| 29 | Now , he knew , was the time to tell his father about The Cheaper Sex , while he was in such an extraordinarily amiable mood . |
| 30 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |