Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] he on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 2 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 3 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 4 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 5 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 6 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 7 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 8 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 9 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 10 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 11 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 12 | After The Tyger 's Whelp put in at the harbour at Liamuiga , also known as Everhope , the winter after the Battle of Sloop 's Bight , the letter from the King in England to Kit was delivered to him on the verandah of the Great House at Belmont , by the captain , one Rowland Grasscocke , who was plying a regular trade between England , the West Coast of Africa and the Hesperidean chain . |