Example sentences of "he [was/were] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when he were down the town hall . |
| 2 | He were on the shed roof ? |
| 3 | No , stuck it over David 's head , he were on the phone to a client , we took a photo , somebody took a photo of it , we knocked on the door we said David have you got a minute ? |
| 4 | Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision . |
| 5 | The drunken miller 's incoherency , " " as he were on the quakke " " ( 4152 ) recalls how Nicholas puts the equivalent of an ass 's head on John the carpenter by portraying him , absurdly , as a duck swimming above the Second Flood ( 3575 – 6 ) . |
| 6 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 7 | He was a thin , brown man with a brass stud at the neck of his striped shirt and a sad expression as if he were on the point of tears . |
| 8 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 9 | Jo contemplates the great cross on its summit , ‘ the crowning confusion of the great , confused city ; — so golden , so high up , so far out of reach ’ , BH 19 ; its picture , ‘ with a pink dome ’ , on the lid of Peggotty 's work-box , DC 2 ; David and Peggotty visit it , DC 33 ; its ‘ deep bell ’ , DC 47 ; Master Humphrey inspects the cathedral clock , ‘ the great Heart of London ’ , MHC 6 ; John Browdie marvels at the building 's size , NN 39 ; statues of the apostles on its exterior , NN 45 ; Oliver in Fagin 's den as lonely as if he were in the ball on top of the cathedral , OT 18 . |
| 10 | She called Alexandra ‘ Charlotte ’ and spoke of far off things , but of Richard even more often , usually as if he were in the room with her . |
| 11 | He was indifferent to the house , indeed almost disliked the grander parts of it , preferring the fire in the hall where he could drink his dram in company with his dogs as if he were by the croft hearth of his childhood . |
| 12 | He was down the pub . |
| 13 | Willi came up to see how he was during the morning . |
| 14 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 15 | He was above the idea of taking advantage of headhunters through accepting free lunches and trips without intending to move : ‘ Time is one 's most valuable commodity . ’ |
| 16 | As for the King , Tyndale asserted that he was above the law and was obliged to account for his actions only to God . |
| 17 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 18 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 19 | But when he came to trade them in and filled in his application , he was told he was beyond the age limit . |
| 20 | Where did he used to stay when he was up the glen ? |
| 21 | , well he was up the side of the . |
| 22 | He was here , and the hardest part was over ; he was on the soil where Alina walked , he breathed the same air again . |
| 23 | He said he was on the Prince of Orange 's staff . |
| 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 | She knew he was on the brink of orgasm , and was aware of a gathering in her own loins . |
| 26 | And he was on the brink , she sensed , of surprising her with a confidence . |
| 27 | I was at the wardrobe , I 'd just took me trousers off and the bloody door flew open and I turned round , he was on the bed ! |
| 28 | He was on the water when I made the speech and the Liberals did not know what to say . |
| 29 | R.W. Davidson , a 14-year old boy employed at Lee 's works had a particularly horrifying death , he was on the night shift and during a meal break was skylarking with a friend when he fell into a pile of dust which quickly enveloped and suffocated him . |
| 30 | Now he was on the edge of the pine forest at the bottom of the meadow . |