Example sentences of "[verb] he was [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 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the bucket in the cupboard Barry the Time Sprout woke suddenly to find he was in the wrong chapter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He wanted his fans to know he was on the mend . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | Sean was intent on not coming back as he believed he was in the right , but he did feel very upset . |
| 12 | Speaking on Central News last year , he says he was in the flat when the fight broke out between Mills and Wiltshire . |
| 13 | Moreover , Cézanne had felt he was respecting the laws of traditional , scientific perspective . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And er god you should of heard him , god if it ai n't Ross all over again , mummy , mummy and she left him there , as I said when they first came he was in the far bedroom , well now I suppose with all these people she 's rearranged it indoors and he 's in the one next to our house , and she 's shouting at him and er it went on how , I ca n't tell you how long , I mean , Bev and I was talking through bedrooms you know |
| 18 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 19 | So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme . |
| 20 | Especially if you consider he was on the trail of the man he believes had his family abducted and almost certainly murdered . |
| 21 | JH : Moving on to another great love of yours , Franz Schubert ; I have always felt that he was in many ways cut short in his prime , almost as thought he was on the verge of finding himself creatively . |
| 22 | I suspect he was in the Tower not because he could count the days but was privy to secrets which could rock thrones and topple crowns ! ’ |
| 23 | Saul of Tarsus after his Damascus road experience spent three days in fasting and prayer ; that showed he was in the receptive mood which invited the Spirit to come . |
| 24 | Allchin began by admitting that Microsoft has had a problem communicating its approach to object technology and claimed he was on the panel to put the record straight : there are objects in Windows NT because there is an object management system in the kernel — its simply not exposed to users . |
| 25 | He claimed he was in the UK for a conference . |
| 26 | But when he came to trade them in and filled in his application , he was told he was beyond the age limit . |
| 27 | I got such a shock I forgot he was behind the glass and thought he was going to shove his face right into mine . |
| 28 | When Bodie arrived he was in the company of a female operative whom he introduced as Liz Spalding . |
| 29 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |
| 30 | Waiting he was in the gold and brown of the Palast , himself immaculate , pink , flashing his smile as he complimented Erika on her appearance and , in her leather coat and with her fur hat at a rakish angle , and her face glowing with health , Erika deserved the compliment . |