Example sentences of "[was/were] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was him done with the travelling life . ’ |
| 2 | He came and went so quickly that she might not have known it was him save for the flash of his yellow cravat under the gas-lamp . |
| 3 | If I walked across his unmarked grave , I 'd know it was him buried under the ground . ’ |
| 4 | Thus was he deprived of the free manpower which had been his and without which began a slow decline in the market gardening business , the hay and straw , and then even the bakery . |
| 5 | Was he cast in the same mould ? |
| 6 | So was Dr Carrington exerting a right — some would say a fundamental right — to self-determination , or was he capitulating under the weight of an intolerable burden ? |
| 7 | ‘ Was he born in the wild ? |
| 8 | Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’ |
| 9 | Was he thinking about the oats he would have in the morning ? |
| 10 | Was he referring to the damage she had inflicted on his car ? |
| 11 | No , no it 's a lot better than what it was he went to the doctor and the doctor said . |
| 12 | ‘ So why was he insured with the British and Cosmopolitan ? ’ |
| 13 | Or was he addicted to the game Striker as a kid where the goalie adopted a similar position ( mine always seemed to do a Sprake and throw the ball back into my own net ) . |
| 14 | What was he doing with the things that he was finding ? |
| 15 | I mean , what was he doing on the staircase anyway ? |
| 16 | ' — another thing : what the fuck was he doing on the roof in the first place ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And what , might I ask , sir , was he doing at the time he was talking about the bell ? ’ |
| 18 | My God , what was he doing to the animal ? |
| 19 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 20 | ‘ What was he doing in the Little Vestry , then ? |
| 21 | What was he doing in the Duke 's room ? |
| 22 | What was he doing in the East End ? |
| 23 | From , from Yugoslavia , and we , we heard provisionally he was released about August did n't we , and then eventually a couple of months ago that he had definitely released , erm , and , were , were very pleased about that cos was he released before the end of his term , he must have been ? |
| 24 | And why was he waiting in the Yew Alley and not in the house ? ’ |
| 25 | In piecing it together afterwards the thing began to go wrong when somebody asked the Butcher was he going to the ‘ do ’ in the Bank . |
| 26 | Was he committed to the role of protector , or did he just love flying ? |
| 27 | But there remained the problem which had been gnawing at his mind for months as he waited for his enemy to come home : how was he to get into the castle itself ? |
| 28 | Was he laughing at the absurd idea of being an old fogey ? |