Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A moment later he was outside in the bright morning sunshine . |
| 2 | No he was , he was right at the very beginning of the school |
| 3 | When he reached the police station , he had second thoughts and turned himself in , admitting that he was probably over the drink-drive limit . |
| 4 | He can be seen as representative of the pre-war analysis of social problem in biological , hereditarian terms although he was firmly on the dominant environmentalist wing of the Eugenics Society itself . |
| 5 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 6 | Hardly had he returned to Malaya in 1935 than he was again on the upward ladder : in 1937 in the conventional testing ground of an African secretariat , Lagos , followed in 1939 by promotion to the difficult post of chief secretary of troubled Palestine . |
| 7 | Since Lothar had been summoned to meet his father at Worms at the beginning of July , he was already in the far north of Italy en route to the Rhineland when news of the emperor 's death reached him . |
| 8 | He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , like I am now , so just piss off out of it , will you ? |
| 9 | Poor unlucky soul ; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , and something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to . |
| 10 | He says he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 11 | Feeling more than ready to pass him without acknowledgement , she found , however , that he was n't of the same mind . |
| 12 | ‘ He was very attractive , very attentive … he was n't like the other men I knew . |
| 13 | He was n't in the forward dome car , upstairs or down , nor in the open dayniter . |
| 14 | It was more irritating still to realise he was n't in the least bit put out by the woman 's comments . |
| 15 | But he was n't in the disappearing business . |
| 16 | Attached unofficially to Austrian staff , he was not under the direct authority of anyone . |
| 17 | In September 1770 John Sadler retired , possibly because he was not in the best of health . |
| 18 | I couldn ‘ t understand why he was not in the European Championship squad . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 20 | ‘ I told him he had to go carefully , he was not in the strong position he liked to imagine . |
| 21 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 22 | His game then deteriorated and he was rarely in the top fifty in a tournament , let alone the top ten . |
| 23 | He was also for the first time vaguely troubled about the DIA 's priorities in the Middle East , particularly with respect to the Western hostages in Beirut . |
| 24 | At New Winchelsea and in North Wales , the king was dealing with his own land , as he was also on the abortive site of New Town beside Poole Bay . |
| 25 | He was also in the wrong place again . |
| 26 | Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface . |
| 27 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 28 | He was broadly in the Liberal Imperialist camp , and played a somewhat curious role in the manoeuvres that followed the Jameson raid in South Africa . |
| 29 | Now it was the end of a disappointing Tour , he was somewhere around the 50 mark in the rankings , running out of money , and talking about going home . |
| 30 | He was clearly of the old school , which held that women belonged barefoot , pregnant — and silent — in the kitchen . |