Example sentences of "and he [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That old woman did the business , word-perfect , she was perfect , the jury took one look at that little old lady and he was off the hook , she never made a slip . |
| 2 | Lambert 's eyes went hazy ; he felt unconsciousness rising in him like a tide ; it drained reluctantly away , and he was through the barrage again . |
| 3 | Mr. Wadsworth considered this matter in the present case , and he was of the view that the criticism being made in the notice with regard to the Order 29 point of the County Court Rules was sufficient for it to be necessary for him to bring these proceedings by way of appeal before this court . |
| 4 | In Turkish sources , however , Cemaleddin 's grandfather 's name is given as Mehmed , not Isa ; he certainly was called Cemaleddin , not Bedreddin , one of his most famous works being called and he was of the ( mezheb ) , not the Hanafi . |
| 5 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |
| 6 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 7 | A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months . |
| 8 | His career-highest came next season , 188 in five hours against Queensland at Brisbane , followed by a couple of nineties , and he was on the ship to England for the 1934 tour . |
| 9 | He developed quite a severe migraine headache and felt very sick by Day 3 and he was on the verge of giving up . |
| 10 | And he was on the PTA at school , ’ said Vanessa . |
| 11 | There was no message from the police captain , and he was on the point of leaving again for the City of Dreams when a rickshaw , its linen sunscreens pulled down around the passenger seat , rushed into the square and stopped by him , blocking his path . |
| 12 | And he was on the brink , she sensed , of surprising her with a confidence . |
| 13 | His eyes narrowed and he was on the verge of saying more when Nina put her head round the door . |
| 14 | We 'd talked about a heart-lung transplant , and he was on the list , but they never found a suitable match . |
| 15 | And he was with the magician and he made her disappear . |
| 16 | At the start of the campaign for nomination , Carter had two great disadvantages : he was practically unknown outside Georgia , and he was from the deep South . |
| 17 | This operation ( 1960 ) seriously delayed him , for it left one eye permanently damaged , and he was in the Purey-Cust nursing home by the minster in York and then had a convalescence of several weeks . |
| 18 | It was going to happen to him all over again , and he was in the worst possible company . |
| 19 | But as it turned out , we were playing this club in Sydney 's red light district and he was in the audience ! |
| 20 | They met at Cornell University , where she was a social work student and he was in the agricultural department . |
| 21 | He got the fright of his life , for the Harris 's was at them like a bullet , and he was in the way ! |
| 22 | And he was in the rugby football team — Rich was proud as proud . |
| 23 | Both syllabuses and examinations were being brought up to date , and he was in the forefront of the new developments . |
| 24 | Philip Brooks was director of Holy Trinity church in Philadelphia , erm on , and he was in the Holy Land on Christmas Eve in eighteen sixty five , and he stood in a field outside Bethlehem where the shepherds were supposed to have received the annunciation , and thought of the beginning of O Little Town of Bethlehem . |
| 25 | Now talking bout the Cosmo , I 'll come back to that again because there was a lad there and he was in the Independent Labour Party , and er his name was Eric and er this pamphlet will tell you said he answered more questions when he spoke , and at nineteen he was he spoke , he answered more questions than any other speaker had ever answered at the Cosmo you know he got a record for answering questions . |
| 26 | He was on that jury , and he was in the sa a jury with this |
| 27 | And er there was only one who could n't take part and he was in the fire brigade and could n't take part because they were er his employers . |
| 28 | And he was in the jacuzzi with her , turning up the dials until the water bubbled furiously around them . |
| 29 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 30 | And er he was just delighted to be back of course and first thing he did was up to the house and had a he had a look round and he was in the byre and had these two awful grand . |