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 | Sean was intent on not coming back as he believed he was in the right , but he did feel very upset . |
| 16 | He 's trying to enlist my sympathy by pretending he 's in the grip of some third thing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The singer Frankie Vaughan says he 's on the mend , but lucky to be alive after a two-hour emergency operation . |
| 19 | I says he 's in the Army . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Speaking for himself , Svidrigailov says he is after the women , which is n't untrue but we know what it 's worth . |
| 23 | Speaking on Central News last year , he says he was in the flat when the fight broke out between Mills and Wiltshire . |
| 24 | Moreover , Cézanne had felt he was respecting the laws of traditional , scientific perspective . |
| 25 | I hope he 's in the club and everything , they all try and out do each other . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 |