Example sentences of "[verb] he [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon , yesterday , denying he was on the prom at all . |
| 2 | John Coffin did not know he was on the wrong side yet , not having so far met Rose Hilaire , but he too realized that there might be a fight ahead . |
| 3 | The precaution probably was n't necessary , but on the off-chance that more thugs from INCUBUS came sniffing round , they would n't know he was in the area . |
| 4 | Did n't you know he was in the prison service ? |
| 5 | Has he been to the show yet ? |
| 6 | Has he been in the , in the loft in the workshop ? |
| 7 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 8 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 9 | In the bucket in the cupboard Barry the Time Sprout woke suddenly to find he was in the wrong chapter . |
| 10 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 11 | He 's so quiet now you forget he 's in the house . |
| 12 | He wanted his fans to know he was on the mend . |
| 13 | the he gets , if he 's not driving he 's in the van , you know |
| 14 | Unless they say he 's on the bottle . |
| 15 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 16 | Sean was intent on not coming back as he believed he was in the right , but he did feel very upset . |
| 17 | He 's trying to enlist my sympathy by pretending he 's in the grip of some third thing . |
| 18 | I 'VE heard of prisoners going on the run to prove their innocence , but here 's a prisoner who says he 's on the run to prove his GUILT . |
| 19 | The singer Frankie Vaughan says he 's on the mend , but lucky to be alive after a two-hour emergency operation . |
| 20 | I says he 's in the Army . |
| 21 | Pausanias says he is on the god 's left , and I conclude that he is using the words from the spectator 's point of view , as I believe he does in his account of Polygnotos 's paintings at Delphi . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disturb you , Mr Varna , but I have a Mr O'Neill here who says he is from the British and Cosmopolitan Assurance Company . |
| 23 | Speaking for himself , Svidrigailov says he is after the women , which is n't untrue but we know what it 's worth . |
| 24 | Speaking on Central News last year , he says he was in the flat when the fight broke out between Mills and Wiltshire . |
| 25 | Moreover , Cézanne had felt he was respecting the laws of traditional , scientific perspective . |
| 26 | I hope he 's in the club and everything , they all try and out do each other . |
| 27 | In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’ |
| 28 | He stayed on , though it seemed he was on the point of departure , for moments together , stuck to his own indecisiveness like an insect on the tacky strips of paper designed to catch them . |
| 29 | There is not a suggestion that one of these missiles were returned ; there is not one suggestion which can be made by anybody , no matter how evilly disposed he is to the organizer of the procession or to the purpose of the procession , that any violence was offered by a member of that procession . |
| 30 | He asked instead why Hunter-Blair had not said he was at the Post on the day of the murder and why he had troubled to ask Linley to keep his presence secret . |