Example sentences of "[conj] he [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen . |
| 2 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 3 | They remained in Ottawa after his military service , where he was on the advisory board of a trust company and was close to the excellent fishing of the Gatineau hills . |
| 4 | I had to know exactly where he was in the room . |
| 5 | He had n't got where he was in the world without knowing how to get what he wanted , and he appeared to want her . |
| 6 | His feelings for her as his sister were still the same , because although he was across the world he still thought about her every day . |
| 7 | He can hardly talk , almost certainly ca n't see and although he was at the funeral probably does n't even realise that his son died in another road accident six months after his . |
| 8 | The day was fabulous and David performed extremely well although he was in the blackest of moods . |
| 9 | Thickened his voice in the wrong places to try and convince us that he was under the influence . |
| 10 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 11 | While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies . |
| 12 | Igor Kasatonov , Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , refused to take the oath , saying that he was under the command only of the C.-in-C. of the CIS armed forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov . |
| 13 | Alfred Fry , stage manager of Drew 's company , told the court that he was at the premises in Friar Street when he heard Drew singing at six o'clock ; he also saw and spoke to Drew at 6.15 . |
| 14 | At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face . |
| 15 | It was n't Brian 's fault , he could n't really help the fact that he did n't fit in , that he looked , well … strange , or that he was at the back of the queue when the brains were handed out . |
| 16 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 17 | Anyone who knew Niki knew , in spite of his denials , that he was at the end of his rope . |
| 18 | Mr Scott 's removal from office was demanded by one shareholder who said that he was at the helm when the company 's finances went in to the red . |
| 19 | The smith was a freedman , tall and muscular , a Ch'noze whose facial tattoos indicated that he was of the family of a war-leader . |
| 20 | His talons were unadorned , though he had eye tattoos which indicated that he was of the clan of Hanjin . |
| 21 | It seemed inconceivable that he was of the same race as the two vibrancers sitting near him ; inconceivable , too , that they shared his art . |
| 22 | But now , after his near miss with Hoomey , Nails remembered that he was for the long drop next time — no more cautions . |
| 23 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 24 | There were rumours after he had a stroke last March that he was on the brink of retirement and that he wished to go . |
| 25 | McLeish had rung his own flat to collect messages ; he could see Catherine just waking , and waved to her to indicate that he was on the phone . |
| 26 | At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list . |
| 27 | His retreat was , however , purely tactical , for the hunter had got wind of his quarry and from early 1869 he began to lay his traps , with the certain knowledge that he was on the right track . |
| 28 | I can not resist retelling one of the anecdotes : in 1963 , at a party to congratulate Cotton on an award he had just received , Lipscomb told Cotton that while he was delighted by the choice , it should not be supposed that he was on the ‘ cottonpickin' ’ committee . |
| 29 | Equally , his brace against Manchester United in our last match of 1990–91 ( co-incidentally also his own 150th Palace appearance ) demonstrated that he was on the verge of international recognition , with the second one , struck from fully 30 yards , bringing the big crowd to its feet in salute . |
| 30 | Mir Jafar , who was made Nawab , had an adequate claim to the throne and might have been a good ruler under other circumstances , but it was quite clear that he was on the throne simply because the Company had decided to put him there . |