Example sentences of "[conj] he [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen . |
| 2 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 3 | It was possible that recovery might be organised , and for that reason he would remain where he was at least until morning . |
| 4 | In the same year , Dustin was in London again as one of the guests at the Royal Command Performance of Love Story , where he was to be presented to the Queen Mother . |
| 5 | Born in York on 16th October , 1918 , he was baptised in St George 's Church where he was to be ordained a priest on 8th April , 1945 . |
| 6 | Now Daniel was difficult , telling her not to come to the hospital , where he was to be Father Christmas in the children 's ward . |
| 7 | Christopher Gore , the son of a nuclear scientist and himself a brilliant academic , waited patiently to be let in to Bristol Crown Court , where he was to be accused of killing his father and his mother . |
| 8 | They remained in Ottawa after his military service , where he was on the advisory board of a trust company and was close to the excellent fishing of the Gatineau hills . |
| 9 | Carl 's parents Lorraine and David , of nearby Hateley Heath , were at his bedside in Sandwell District General Hospital , where he was on a life support machine . |
| 10 | The man did n't have a long time to go through a process , he did n't have a long time to find where he was on on the scale , a and er , you know , from one stage to the next stage , to the next stage , to got through a pre-evangelism and then another stage , and another stage , the man did n't have time he was dying ! |
| 11 | Floy stood where he was for a moment , looking up at the great , shining edifice that was Tara , Ireland 's Bright Palace , the great legendary Citadel of Light , the home of the Wolfkings … |
| 12 | The coroner had not got where he was by thinking , and he showed no inclination to start on this occasion . |
| 13 | Legion wished to be a disciple but Jesus told him to remain where he was in his own district and tell all the people what … the Lord in his mercy has done for you ( Mark 5:19 ) . |
| 14 | The Mirror discovered she was involved in allegations against Stephen and told police and his lawyers in Wolverhampton , West Midlands , where he was in custody . |
| 15 | There was no trace of his usual cheekiness , either because he was seriously worried about his son or simply because he had no need to defend himself up here where he was in his element and they were out of theirs . |
| 16 | I had to know exactly where he was in the room . |
| 17 | He had n't got where he was in the world without knowing how to get what he wanted , and he appeared to want her . |
| 18 | Where he was in , and archol and archaeologist or something ? |
| 19 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 20 | But my father never did a regular job after he come out th out of the army you know , I think it was something had happened to him in the army , he 'd got erm bomb blast or something or he was near s something when it went off and he got buried . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Although he was on Oxfords , or even Ansons , he was nevertheless getting experience at night and this was important if he wanted to become a Mosquito Pathfinder . |
| 23 | His feelings for her as his sister were still the same , because although he was across the world he still thought about her every day . |
| 24 | In the beginning — and it had felt like the beginning although he was past thirty when they met — she had been an art student falling out of love with a young man on her course . |
| 25 | He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age . |
| 26 | He can hardly talk , almost certainly ca n't see and although he was at the funeral probably does n't even realise that his son died in another road accident six months after his . |
| 27 | And Dean set up ATP with backing from RKO , although he was to be rapidly disappointed in his expectation that the company would provide him both with technical expertise and favourable distribution in the US . |
| 28 | His later role as a kind of travelling salesman of international anti-semitism is only tangentially related to the scope of this study , although he was to be of considerable significance in his role as vice-president of the IFL and the legacy he bequeathed to Arnold Leese was to help him revive racial nationalism after the Second World War . |
| 29 | The day was fabulous and David performed extremely well although he was in the blackest of moods . |
| 30 | Cranmer was summoned to Rome , and , although he was in prison and unable to obey the summons , was excommunicated for contumacy when he did not appear . |