Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] he in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds who flocked to listen to John 's preaching of repentance were baptised by him in the Jordan in penitent expectation of the age of fulfilment which he proclaimed . |
| 2 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 3 | ‘ They were found with him in the pond . ’ |
| 4 | It will not do to paint Themistokles as Kimon 's opponent on the issue of foreign policy principles — that is , as a medising Sparta-hater — and thereby to seek to explain his ostracism in 471 : it is now certain that very many ostraka were cast against him in the early 480s when his patriotism was not in question . |
| 5 | Both firms were associated with him in the pioneering venture of issuing cheap reprint series of his works : the Cheap , Library , People 's , and Charles Dickens Editions . |
| 6 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 7 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 8 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 9 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 10 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 11 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 12 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 13 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 14 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 15 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 16 | The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts . |
| 17 | She was waiting for him in the apartment . |
| 18 | Curtis , the local CID sergeant , was waiting for him in the police station . |
| 19 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 20 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 21 | She shared none of his growing absorption in politics but was attuned to him in the world of magic . |
| 22 | A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night . |
| 23 | Two years ago he was involved in a dreadful crash on the western Ring Road in which his wife , who was sitting beside him in the passenger seat , received such serious injuries to the lower half of the body that for the rest of her life — a life which ended tragically last week — she was confined to a wheel-chair . |
| 24 | ‘ I was talking to him in the post office . ’ |
| 25 | Like , cos I was talking to him in the party , yeah ? |
| 26 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 27 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |