Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | ( c ) Calculate , in terms of days , whether or not Grieg was more ( or less ) efficient in collecting his debts during the year ended 31 March Year 14 than he was during the previous year . |
| 10 | Even so esteemed a Church Father as Clement of Alexandria was actually , in many respects , closer to original Nazarean doctrine than he was to the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome . |
| 11 | He was less concerned with the fate of the customs official in Uruguay whose spine he had had to snap than he was with the course of the ancient empire on its long , slow descent into barbarism . |
| 12 | He is also far more relaxed than he was for the majority of his Formula One career , laughing and joking with reporters and rivals . |
| 13 | De Gaulle in early 1965 was clearly less interested in general economic co-operation than he was in the CAP and measures to limit US power in Europe . |
| 14 | Yeah , his his number 's on the dice happen to leave him so he was on the race track , so it 's up to him now . |
| 15 | He sat back in his chair again , dragging it round so he was under the shade too . |
| 16 | He had to let one go so he was in the shop a lot himself . |
| 17 | Once he was at the front it was plain sailing for the Pagid UK sponsored Vauxhall driver , who finished four seconds clear . |
| 18 | Once he was on the mend , we decided to try and do something about his crooked leg . |
| 19 | Once he was over the edge of extreme fatigue his brain drank up the language by the pint . |
| 20 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 21 | Her door was set back so that she did n't see him until he was past the cars in the centre of the courtyard . |
| 22 | She let him pass her , fifty yards to the east ; the temptation to shout was wrong but she waited until he was at the hedge . |
| 23 | Levi did n't look at the leaderboard from the 7th hole until he was on the fairway at the 13th , when he noticed he held a two-shot lead . |
| 24 | He wandered around until he was under the enormous swelling bulk of the fuel tank . |
| 25 | Colin covered his eyes with his hands until he was inside the four high walls , and the door was shut again . |
| 26 | Jess glared at him , backing away until he was in the open . |
| 27 | Ian Spiro was a novice in this league but still acted like he was in the big time , joining Lomas Santa Fe Country Club where membership costs ‘ tens of thousands ’ . |
| 28 | In such a situation while the judge may rule that the case shall proceed and be considered by the jury it would not be the duty of counsel to cross-examine the defence witnesses or address the jury if he was of the view that it would not be proper to convict . |
| 29 | Whilst , then , as the committee 's report states , ‘ it would not be the duty of counsel to cross-examine the defence witnesses or address the jury if he was of the view that it would not be proper to convict , ’ he would be free to do so if the prosecution view changed , perhaps after hearing the defendant 's evidence . |
| 30 | In Ashbridge Investments Ltd. v. Minister of Housing and Local Governments the Minister had power to modify a clearance order if he was of the opinion that land should not have been included in it . |