Example sentences of "he [be] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Check out Ian Marshalls rating … he s down as a central defender .
2 Summers was quoted in national newspapers as saying : ‘ If Sugar thinks we are a run of the mill first division club , he is in for a big shock .
3 I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’
4 Mm , ca n't remember what band he is out of , he 's out of a big band
5 So MacDonald reckons he 's in for a hard night at Broomfield on Tuesday .
6 He apparently retains his seat on Silicon Graphics Inc 's board and his post as head of Mips ' architecture committee but it seems he 's off with a new venture-backed workstation company called NetPower Systems Inc .
7 The Microprocessor Report expects Bob Miller to be replaced at MIPS Technologies Inc : he apparently retains his seat on Silicon Graphics Inc 's board and his post as head of MIPS ' architecture committee but it seems he 's off with a new venture-backed workstation company called NetPower Systems Inc ; he would n't discuss product plans but the newsletter thinks that it will market low-cost MIPS R-series workstations made by OEM suppliers .
8 He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved .
9 His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong .
10 Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing .
11 Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal .
12 Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing .
13 Now he was off to a nine p.m. to one a.m .
14 He had a bag with him , a small suitcase really , so I asked if he was off on a late holiday .
15 MIKE ATHERTON 's hope of retaining his England Test place took a blow today , when he was out to a careless stroke in front of Graham Gooch .
16 But he was out at a coronary , I believe , and by the time he arrived the baby was born . ’
17 He was out for a good time , which might well involve finishing the evening with a fight .
18 I rang the doctor , hoping he would suggest transferring her to Tewkesbury or Evesham , but he was out on a coronary emergency , so I had to wait .
19 Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance :
20 He was in for a big surprise if he thought he was still dealing with the impressionable , easygoing young girl he had married !
21 Well , she felt in a fighting mood , and if he thought that he could make a fool of her in front of his girlfriend then he was in for a big surprise .
22 After the second course he was back on a normal diet , gaining weight rapidly .
23 In a moment or two he was back with a warm bulb .
24 he was back with a second midway through the first half … and that was that … 2-0 …
25 Running out , he was back in a dark antagonistic Holland with a saviour he had forgotten , who said , ‘ I am the Light . ’
26 By the time he was 22 he was down to a 9 handicap and was off 2 when he turned professional at the start of last year .
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