Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he have [be] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Over the few weeks he had been in Mandru 's house , Lucien had acknowledged Jeopardy 's beauty and talent , but had also despised him . |
| 2 | At this stage he had been in contention behind McCallen and Dunlop and even after his restart he still clawed his way back into the leading group . |
| 3 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 4 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 5 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 6 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 7 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 8 | But then again , that 's the first time he 's been in ring since |
| 9 | Father Donnelly was also there , looking plumper these days , but still the same cheerful personality he had been in Brooklyn . |
| 10 | one man who 's been losing pounds to go on the rally is Ade Jeffries from Gloucester … for the past two months he 's been in the local gym geting fit … he 's lost nearly two stone … |
| 11 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 12 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 13 | He was sixty-four now , but as a young man he had been in the army and seen action on the North-West Frontier . |
| 14 | For the last week he 's been in a hospice with terminal cancer . |
| 15 | In earlier life he had been in Canada and it is certain that at least some youthful potential emigrants to Canada were inspired by his accounts of life there . |
| 16 | Mr Prescott told the court that on the fateful evening Boxing Day last year he had been in the pub with Mr Maltby and another friend . |
| 17 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 18 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 19 | The last time he had been in Athens , when the group that called themselves ‘ November 17th ’ had hit the Procter & Gamble offices with an anti-tank rocket , he had not been admitted to the presence of this big man . |
| 20 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |
| 21 | Yet on both occasions he had been in the vicinity of his own pit ; unsurprisingly because his house was only fifty yards from it . |