Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said ‘ yes ’ , and I reminded him that it was against the law for him to have possessed a wild animal in the first place , and he shrugged . |
| 2 | He also consulted constitutional experts who assured him that it was in the Prime Minister 's hands to do as he chose . |
| 3 | Yeah , his his number 's on the dice happen to leave him so he was on the race track , so it 's up to him now . |
| 4 | Potter made straight for the peak and plummeted down the perpendicular drop : the lip curled over him and he was inside the tube . |
| 5 | The government will seek to extradite him if he was outside the country , Mr Coetsee said . |
| 6 | Her door was set back so that she did n't see him until he was past the cars in the centre of the courtyard . |
| 7 | I could n't caddie for him because I was with the central-heating men . |
| 8 | In September 1928 , at the instigation of the diehards , the Empress was involved in yet another attempt to overthrow Ras Tafari ; her soldiers were ordered to arrest him while he was at the palace . |
| 9 | Mr Copley took an occasional service at St Andrew 's when Mr Smollett , the vicar , was on holiday , an involvement in church and village life which , Meg suspected , was as important to him as it was to the church . |
| 10 | He posed the question whether the disadvantage of a judge speaking on matters which in one form or another — such as unfair dismissal from employment or from a trade union — might well come before him when he was on the bench was outweighed by the advantage of hearing his views or by the argument that he should not be prevented , by convention or otherwise , from speaking in Parliament on such a matter . |
| 11 | Adam phoned home and asked his mother to stop his father bothering him when he was in the middle of exams . |