Example sentences of "[be] [verb] his [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had in fact been told his days in the sport were over . |
| 2 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 3 | Most of the plates bear one or two scratched numbers of the reverse : their meaning has not yet been identified but a research student from the Rijksmuseum has made a detailed survey of them and will be publishing his findings in the journal Print Quarterly at a future date . |
| 4 | Welsh will be publishing his results in the 1 June issue of The Astrophysical Journal . |
| 5 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 6 | Seconds later the two rafts following behind hit the same spot and the Minister is taking his chances in the river along with everyone else . |
| 7 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 8 | Now all he had to do was convince his colleagues in the company of the fact . |
| 9 | His public voice was richer in its Southern tones than normal and he was delivering his words in the slow , measured cadences that he normally employed on the floor of the Senate . |
| 10 | Off-duty police constable David Crowe was visiting his parents in the town 's Coalhall Avenue in October last year when fire broke out in the house next door . |