Example sentences of "he [be] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To have gone to such lengths to destroy — ’ Meredith heard his muttered expletive , but he said no more — just began to pace the room with a restless air as if he were in a prison and desperate to get out . |
| 2 | Whatever Shakespeare 's source or inspiration , Pistol is a brilliant invention , locked as he is in a verse-form and range of reference derived from the heroical plays in the London theatres of the 1580s and 1590s , as far removed as could be from his debased reality . |
| 3 | In fact , Lok has made comparisons before this , when , as on this occasion , he was struggling to express his understanding of the new people : " " " He changes shape like a bear in a cave " " " and " " " He is like a cat and he is not like a cat . |
| 4 | There 'd been an accident right outside Park , anyway there was some lad , I do n't know was he , is he or what , but he 's on a horse and it 's only a baby , and I think it 's thrown him and there 's |
| 5 | Well he 's under a lot or else he wo n't . |
| 6 | And er usually , never said a word he 's like a friend and erm , this woman who I said to her , mind he do n't do anything about this I suppose . |
| 7 | he 's like a Jekyll and Hyde that bloke , I 've told you before you wan na be bloody careful how it works out |
| 8 | In one he 's in a lift that does n't stop at the top but keeps going into a world of claustrophobia and vertigo . |
| 9 | But er I 'm just trying to think now er Ben er the trouble with it is , Edmund ca n't leave the country whilst he 's in a job until he gets naturalization because he 's got to get a work permit and an entry permit and everything all the way through |
| 10 | When we moved in here , he took out a loan because he 's in a band and wanted a new guitar , but we could n't afford the payments on Social . |
| 11 | ‘ Now he 's in a side that is going well , with goals coming from all over the team . |
| 12 | You see Pete Townshend now and he 's behind a screen when he 's onstage . |
| 13 | The next second the light was gone and Martin with it , and Joe stood in the yard oblivious of the fact that he was without a coat and that the cold was seeping through his pullover , for his outer self was no colder than the feeling within him that had been evoked by Martin 's last words concerning his mother . |
| 14 | His position was now exactly what it had been during his exile in Rufus 's reign : he was without an income and reduced to dependence on the hospitality of Hugh of Lyons . |
| 15 | He was on a motorcycle when arrested by plain clothes police . |
| 16 | He was on a pushbike and he was sucked into the slip , into the strip blah , into the slipstream of a car lorry |
| 17 | He was on a road that led through a swamp , and then coming towards him was the rough figure of a shepherd , the jostling oval shapes of the animals . |
| 18 | Sandison was not surprised by this but he was at a loss as to how to proceed . |
| 19 | He was at an age when he could be both inside himself and outside himself at the same time : he knew he was only playing a game , but the game still remained real to him . |
| 20 | He was of an age and class that still swilled the dregs of colonialism at two in the morning , and the fact this man had black blood in him ( and , he guessed , much else besides ) counted as another mark against Chant 's judgement . |
| 21 | But now he was of an age and living in an era whose insecurities craved the reassurance of nursery images , the illusory solidity of Victorian values which , if they had never existed , could always be invented . |
| 22 | ‘ He was outside a pub when a police transit came by . |
| 23 | He was in a panic and crying . |
| 24 | ‘ And that means he was in a house or somewhere of human usage . |
| 25 | He was in a van and two estate cars we made many short journeys . |
| 26 | I think he was in a hurry and was cross about being stopped , ’ said an eyewitness . |
| 27 | But he got ‘ caught ’ , this one could n't be brushed off so easily and now , ten months later , he was in a situation that he both loves and hates . |
| 28 | ‘ He was like a brother and always will be . |
| 29 | She says she has never again felt so close to anyone , he was like an accomplice and brother . |
| 30 | that he was inside a dwelling and had no reason to believe that the words or behaviour used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation displayed , would be heard or seen by a person outside that or any other dwelling , or |