Example sentences of "he [was/were] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was in Norfolk he had to fill in an alien 's registration form . |
| 2 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 3 | Yes , he ought used to be , he was in Scotland he was n't bro , brought George . |
| 4 | While he was in school I gave him every chance I could to play before an audience , both in the school and in the local YMCA . |
| 5 | So when he was in Birmingham he bought me this house , which was going cheap , so that I could start a money-lending business here for him . |
| 6 | When he was in Vienna he had contact with the followers of Freud and Adler , and he found that even when a fact appeared to contradict their theories , they were always able to turn the fact around so that it could be taken as another example to prove their theory . |
| 7 | ‘ He journeyed back to his own people , with many adventures along the way ; and when he was in Merkadale he told the Myrcans that they had to stop the killing , that they were only trying to pick an apple that was already in their hands . |
| 8 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 9 | All the time he was in business he was improving the design of his optical instruments , and he was one of the first to make inexpensive achromatic microscopes . |
| 10 | But while he was in hospital he lost her . |
| 11 | ‘ While he was in hospital he had to be taught how to feed himself again . |