Example sentences of "[adv] he [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly he was at the door , swaying slightly , his pyjama jacket gaping open . |
| 2 | She found first gear and was about to let the clutch out when suddenly he was at the door beside her . |
| 3 | Otley 's voice came from the trees on the river bank and suddenly he was in the water hauling me out . |
| 4 | There was a guy on the roof and then suddenly he was in the bath . ’ |
| 5 | Suddenly he was in the enemy 's trench and staring down into a young German 's eyes , a terrified boy even younger than himself . |
| 6 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |
| 7 | Perhaps he was with the group by the lake , or the others under the trees , or others still farther away on the terrace of the house . |
| 8 | That summer Lewis thought perhaps he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 9 | Perhaps he was on the point of leaving but the fracas caused by Waldegrave 's death prevented him . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps he was like the people who think they 're Napoleon , or that they 're in love with the Queen . |
| 11 | Especially he was against the Americans with what he called in speeches , ‘ their Mafia-style methods in business … ’ |
| 12 | Soon he was in the line-up in the northern corner of the bay . |
| 13 | Nigel Mansell had for years been saying : ‘ Just go out and win ! ’ , and finally he was on the point of doing precisely that . |
| 14 | ‘ Your book does n't say whether or not he was at the Escuela Mecánica de ia Armada , but the implication — ’ |
| 15 | Sixty seconds later he was on the pavement of Lombard Street . |
| 16 | Seconds later he was on the phone again , bulling into the next prospect . |
| 17 | I took this threat rather lightly and for good reason , because some fifteen minutes later he was on the telephone to me talking about a completely different matter , as though the previous conversation had never taken place . |
| 18 | A quarter of an hour after starting he was bypassing Canterbury and six minutes later he was on the M2 , leaving a long plume of spray behind him . |
| 19 | Two minutes later he was over the top and out of danger . |
| 20 | He had posed for that portrait at the age of twenty-two ; a year later he was in the Crimea . |
| 21 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 22 | A second later he was in the doorway , glancing from one to the other in concern . |
| 23 | He took a pair of bolt-cutters from his kit and applied the jaws to the chain , and thirty seconds later he was inside the kitchen . |
| 24 | Most held him in some awe — fear , too , whenever he was on the road . |
| 25 | Whatever the case , Belinda knew , in her quietly realistic way , that he was light years beyond her world , and barely aware of her existence , so she simply kept her head down whenever he was on the ward , said very little , and suffered . |
| 26 | Jenna tried to ignore him too , although whenever he was near the air seemed to be crackling between them . |
| 27 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 28 | When I got back he was at the cashier 's desk settling the bill . |
| 29 | Now he was on the edge of the pine forest at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 30 | He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot . |