Example sentences of "he [was/were] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 2 | It made him look a little as though he were on safari . |
| 3 | They faced each other , Harry standing with his hands on his hips , Sir Gregory forcing back his shoulders as if he were on parade and trying to reassure himself of his own rank and standing . |
| 4 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 5 | The young officer held a short leather stick in a gloved hand and occasionally thumped the side of his leg with it , as if he thought he were on horseback . |
| 6 | For a moment , he almost wished he were at home , but then he shook his head as if to rid himself of the thought . |
| 7 | He were at pub . |
| 8 | It has been stated that the principle of primogenital succession was increasingly observed in the eleventh century ; but there was a substantial difference between accepting the customary right of the eldest son to succeed , if he were of age and competent , and accepting it as an inviolable rule , as was proved by the usurpation of Robert the Frisian , and perhaps also by the succession of Raymond IV of Toulouse ( though here the facts are rather uncertain ) . |
| 9 | He also managed to look as though he were in shock , in pain and in hysterics at one and the same time . |
| 10 | Partly because of her own dilemma , and partly because she was so close to Joe , Maureen had gradually realised that Sarah and he were in love . |
| 11 | He were n't very well yesterday at all , he were in bed all day . |
| 12 | Erm I come in , and I went upstairs to see if he were in bed or not ? |
| 13 | He were in bed on Wednesday . |
| 14 | Is the hon. Gentleman saying that , if he were in power , he would repeal the increase in VAT ? |
| 15 | Isabel crouched against the wall , watching him as though he were in truth the wolf her imagination had conjured up , and waiting until her fluttering pulse had steadied before moving again . |
| 16 | The lecture had kept her mind occupied all through breakfast , and had contained a great deal of sound advice on the best method of dealing with fitzAlan , which had not included embracing him as if he were in truth her husband . |
| 17 | come Saturday they 'd rearranged the whole ward and they put him on a W R V S air bed , he were in heaven on this bed , I said why the fuck could n't you have done that earlier ? |
| 18 | She had no desire whatever to stay and become enmeshed in the affairs of Alain Lemarchand and his mother , but he had simply gathered her in imperiously as if he were in charge of her life . |
| 19 | As an astute contemporary observed , " the strange thing is that de Gaulle did not , at any time , suggest that he could save [ the French people ] from [ war ] ; the suggestion was rather that if war was to come … it would be better for France if he were in charge " . |
| 20 | The document states that Richard Walter Jenkins shall ‘ absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the surname of the parent and shall bear the surname of the adopter and shall be held out to the world and in all respects treated as if he were in fact the child of the adopter ’ . |
| 21 | And had he not , with the utmost delicacy , nurtured in them the impression that they and not he were in control of events ? |
| 22 | I thought he were , I always thought he were in superannuation . |
| 23 | Washing facilities are another priority , although in the early stages the patient might be washed in his room , as though he were in hospital . |
| 24 | Tall , blond and muscular , he was without doubt one peach of a downhill racer , but he was also unsophisticated — he was a baker during off-piste season — and clearly bewildered by much of the attention he was getting après ski . |
| 25 | He was without doubt the very worst kind of news reporter , taking a few bare facts and embroidering them into a story ! |
| 26 | His scholarship was extended , but he was without maintenance until Bloomsbury House put him in touch with a sponsor . |
| 27 | For this Fisher 's sad end came on Tower Hill on June 22nd , 1535 , when the ageing Bishop was executed , a man of whom Erasmus wrote , " He was without comparison of his time , greatness of mind , learning and integrity of life " . |
| 28 | Perhaps the devils still did not know who this holy man really was , but they could see that he was without sin . |
| 29 | That 's why the apostle could say , we do n't have a high priest , who 's not touched with the feelings of our infirmities , he 's been there before it , he was tempting in all points like as we are , yet he was without sin . |
| 30 | He was without remorse , seemingly unable to understand the gravity of the offence . |