Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Book jacket designs by him were now in demand from almost every London publisher , including Lehmann , Methuen , Putnam , Secker & Warburg , André Deutsch , Heinemann , Cassell , Chatto and Windus , Rupert Hart-Davis , Derek Verschoyle and Weidenfeld and Nicolson . |
| 2 | The reek off him was now of whisky . |
| 3 | The bitch and he were probably in bed making another child together . |
| 4 | Johnson once described the ideal happiness which he would choose , if he were regardless of futurity . |
| 5 | On two days a week he peddled art and printing materials around the country and , for the rest , he was nominally in charge of his father 's printing works . |
| 6 | He was nowhere in sight . |
| 7 | ‘ I was n't even told about the wedding because he was largely under pressure , in a corner d' you see . |
| 8 | He was right of course , Carrie thought , and as she nestled the child to her and placed the teat of the bottle against the child 's searching mouth she bit on her lip and tried to suppress the anger which welled up inside her . |
| 9 | ‘ But my chief at Liverpool CID would not let me take part , because he was away on holiday himself at the time , and required me to stand in for him . |
| 10 | By way of variation , in October 1943 , his secretary wrote to say that he was away on business , and that it was ‘ quite probable ’ that he would not be able to attend on that occasion . |
| 11 | Stephen did n't expect her to mope around while he was away on business . |
| 12 | If only Jonathan had been around she might never have come to France , she might have stayed in London to explain it all to him , but he was away on business for a week , and the need to escape had been too powerful to resist . |
| 13 | But the woman is also trying to sell a dozen letters and postcards which , she claims , Andrew sent her when he was away at sea . |
| 14 | All too often he was away at sea on naval duties . |
| 15 | He was away at sea for much of the following year , and frequently thereafter , on voyages to the Mediterranean and North America . |
| 16 | He said his mother died when he was away at school in the South of England when he was ten . |
| 17 | Gould 's wife had spent the months that he was away over Christmas and New Year patiently labouring over her sketchbooks and specimens , and had a stack of botanical and ornithological drawings to present him with when he returned . |
| 18 | Sometimes he was away from home for months at a time . |
| 19 | Luckily he was away from home a good deal , which was when we got rogering . ’ |
| 20 | It was predictable whenever he was away from home — the stroll before bed — and they both knew better than to offer their company . |
| 21 | Very frequently he was away from home , sampling the forms of service offered by the various high-church ecclesiastics in the area , driving determinedly over the countryside in a little red Mini that had become used to the eccentricities of his driving technique . |
| 22 | Jonathan Jobson , 16 , from Peterborough , Cambridgeshire , said his condition had improved when he was away from home on work experience and when the nurse , Beverley Allitt , had left . |
| 23 | He was heavily into sex with me during his affair , he felt so guilty . ’ |
| 24 | This has created severe financial problems and at one time he was heavily in debt to the bank . |
| 25 | He was wholly against eroticism in art and literature , and thought that , in the event of any conflict , aesthetic value must yield to morality . |
| 26 | He was completely in control . |
| 27 | He was probably of age by 1222 and first appears in royal service in 1233–4 as constable of St Briavels , Gloucestershire . |
| 28 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 29 | On the other hand , until he was firmly in charge , de Gaulle avoided an open confrontation with them . |
| 30 | Mr Williams said : ‘ The thread that runs through what he had to say is that he was desperately in love with and fond of the victim and wanted to get back at her . ’ |