Example sentences of "was he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was him with the beard cos they always said the Duke of Windsor took after him because he was |
| 2 | I thought that was him on the photo , was it ? |
| 3 | That was him on the door . |
| 4 | ‘ It was him in the photo . |
| 5 | thought that was him in the car but it was n't cos |
| 6 | ‘ Was he at the party on Friday night ? ’ |
| 7 | With the easy grace and dignity associated with the old amateur tradition there was never any doubt that the job would come to him , and so gifted was he as a batsman that one somehow assumed he would slip easily into it once he had learned the ropes . |
| 8 | Where was he during the past year 's review of the telecoms industry ? |
| 9 | Nor was he under a duty to appoint a sufficient number of adjudication officers to handle applications within a statutory period . |
| 10 | Was he under the influence of medication ? |
| 11 | So certain was he of the Huge Reward that he was feeling unusually generous . |
| 12 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |
| 13 | So troubled was he for a girl who , after all , was of age , high-spirited and clever , that after she had gone , and Matey had answered reflectively when he had asked her if she knew where McAllister was going , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 14 | So pleased was he with the results , that he built his own house — the so-called Muscon — next door ( 475/5 ) around 1765 . |
| 15 | So obsessed was he with the details of administration that he saw nothing inappropriate , while Governor-General of Nigeria , in personally composing a memorandum on the issue of chamber pots to second-class administrative officers : he was , he said , against it . |
| 16 | So keen was he on the results — secured into place with a handful of mousse ( a completely new and highly intriguing concept to Yurk ! ) that he agreed to let Tony & Guy 's team work on the colour , later in the week . |
| 17 | That was pretty stupid , because not only was he on the list of residents , but he 'd been seen at mealtimes by several of the other members . |
| 18 | Was he on the motorway ? |
| 19 | Was he on the panel , on the board ? |
| 20 | how long was he on the life support ? |
| 21 | Hardly was he around the corner than the man in the parked car climbed out , crossed the road and let himself in to the apartment-block . |
| 22 | Was the ruler 's freedom of action significantly limited by independent institutions and social pressure or was he in a position to subject every social stratum to his own will ? |
| 23 | ‘ Did Lancaster seem calm or was he in a bit of a state ? ’ enquired Blanche , brushing her front teeth with the tip of her thumb . |
| 24 | Was he in a bad temper when he got up again ? |
| 25 | was he in a good mood ? |
| 26 | Nor was he in the least tired until well after midnight . |
| 27 | For which of these excursions was he in the company of Yeats ? presumably from the Pound papers now at New Haven it would not be hard to come up with answers to these questions . |
| 28 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 29 | ‘ Was he in the kitchen all the time we were talking to Miss Harker ? ’ |
| 30 | No sooner was he in the sport than he was already scheming to make his first million ; he has never stopped scheming since , to make many more than the first . |