Example sentences of "he be [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was Whistler , who strode doggedly on in a frayed tweed overcoat , summer and winter , always with his head down as if he were in the teeth of a gale , shrilly whistling — in perfect tune — a repertoire which extended from old music hall to Elgar . |
| 2 | He is in the throes of this awful thing , ca n't you see ? ’ |
| 3 | Faced with a client , his mental confidence and the alert efficiency it engenders must automatically be impressed upon the client , so that at once the client feels that he is in the hands of an expert , into whose capable hands all matters concerned with the funeral can be safely delivered . |
| 4 | He 's on no files of any kind . |
| 5 | Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example . |
| 6 | He 's in no doubts of his right to treatment |
| 7 | he 's in the hands of these people here , who tell him what to do and what not to do |
| 8 | He 's heading towards death , he 's in the clutches of the authorities and probably the common people taking a few steps back . |
| 9 | He 's amongst the qualifiers for the Lancome trophy at Paris . |
| 10 | Her door was set back so that she did n't see him until he was past the cars in the centre of the courtyard . |
| 11 | And then he was up the stairs to her room , to find there her few poor possessions — but still no Sally-Anne . |
| 12 | A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months . |
| 13 | By the time Fred was 16 he was on the books of Aldershot and had played in friendlies against the Army and Clapton Orient . |
| 14 | In a 13-year career he was on the books of Crystal Palace , QPR , Southampton , and Birmingham City . |
| 15 | Though the streets of this city were solid , their buildings numbered and named ; though the avenues were bright enough , even at night , to banish ambiguity , he still felt as though he was on the margins of some unknown land , and in danger of crossing into it without realizing he was even doing so . |
| 16 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |
| 17 | But by August 30 , ranked a Squadron Leader , he was at the controls of a Hurricane fighter facing 100 enemy aircraft along with just two other planes . |
| 18 | Alfred Fry , stage manager of Drew 's company , told the court that he was at the premises in Friar Street when he heard Drew singing at six o'clock ; he also saw and spoke to Drew at 6.15 . |
| 19 | Angry as he was at the directors for failing to appreciate his talents and not understanding what he was driving at , Dustin was angrier with himself for losing jobs . |
| 20 | This act led , with Henry VIII 's blessing , to Beaton 's murder two months later ; and it was while he was with the Castalians in St Andrews that Knox first went far further than any earlier reformer in Scotland . |
| 21 | Moreover , Cézanne had felt he was respecting the laws of traditional , scientific perspective . |
| 22 | By now he was under no illusions about the reason for the frame-up . |
| 23 | One night he was over the moors around North Stainmore and had to return home at dead of night . |
| 24 | In November 1444 he was among the knights in the English party which went to France to witness the proxy wedding of Henry VI with Margaret of Anjou [ qq.v. ] , and is mentioned as a participant in the dress rehearsal of her royal entry into Rouen in 1445 . |
| 25 | Also , as a means of diffusing his own publications , this time through advertisement , he was among the backers in 1788 of the first evening daily , the Star and Evening Advertiser ; it created a precedent in offering a copy service to others . |
| 26 | He was among the founders of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in 1973 , playing a prominent role in their series of publications on the players of each first-class county and producing the A to Z of Cricket Records in 1976 : ‘ I had seen a book on the football records and persuaded the publisher to try a similar volume on cricket records — not only listing them by explaining them . |
| 27 | He was among the founders of the Linguistic Society of America and one of its early presidents . |
| 28 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
| 30 | And he was in the jacuzzi with her , turning up the dials until the water bubbled furiously around them . |