Example sentences of "[verb] he [was/were] [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 | Sean was intent on not coming back as he believed he was in the right , but he did feel very upset . |
| 11 | Speaking on Central News last year , he says he was in the flat when the fight broke out between Mills and Wiltshire . |
| 12 | Moreover , Cézanne had felt he was respecting the laws of traditional , scientific perspective . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Especially if you consider he was on the trail of the man he believes had his family abducted and almost certainly murdered . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He claimed he was in the UK for a conference . |
| 24 | But when he came to trade them in and filled in his application , he was told he was beyond the age limit . |
| 25 | I got such a shock I forgot he was behind the glass and thought he was going to shove his face right into mine . |
| 26 | When Bodie arrived he was in the company of a female operative whom he introduced as Liz Spalding . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You know he was under the covers . |
| 30 | I know he was in the theatre . |