Example sentences of "he [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when he were down the town hall . |
| 2 | He used to carry on as though he were on a level with Dersingham . |
| 3 | When in the course of my explanation I mentioned the word pagan , he jerked as if he were on the end of a wire . |
| 4 | Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | He were on the shed roof ? |
| 9 | For a moment he did not know where he was : the darkness lay upon him like a leaden weight , crushing him as if he were under a ton of river-water . |
| 10 | ‘ Forgot a lot o' things , did old Blackberry ! ’ observed Forest , addressing Richard as if he were of a sudden a force to be reckoned with . |
| 11 | Number 47 looked as if he were in a conversational mood . |
| 12 | He felt as if he were in a trance , speaking the words of someone else ; the pressure of this rare ocean heave of happiness had re-baptised him , and the words came from out of the air . |
| 13 | He felt slightly awkward , as though he were in a strange woman 's room . |
| 14 | ‘ To have gone to such lengths to destroy — ’ Meredith heard his muttered expletive , but he said no more — just began to pace the room with a restless air as if he were in a prison and desperate to get out . |
| 15 | Then there was Whistler , who strode doggedly on in a frayed tweed overcoat , summer and winter , always with his head down as if he were in the teeth of a gale , shrilly whistling — in perfect tune — a repertoire which extended from old music hall to Elgar . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If he were in the very act of cutting his own throat , how could Harry have stopped him ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Moments later her father answered the call , his voice coming as clearly as if he were in the same room , and even loudly enough for Silas to hear it . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By nightfall , Alec felt as though he were inside a fort under attack . |
| 23 | Yeah , she er we went to the river shore , you know the bridge near o on our part of the road and he were behind the trees and er I was wo wo , it were one of his sons who were with us , you know , Tommy and he was shouting |
| 24 | Upstairs , he was down the he 's just his clothes away . |
| 25 | He was down the pub . |
| 26 | Both my cousins were operators in a cotton mill where Uncle George was a maintenance fitter , a job which had left its mark for he was minus a finger on each hand . |
| 27 | 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 ? ’ |
| 28 | ( c ) Calculate , in terms of days , whether or not Grieg was more ( or less ) efficient in collecting his debts during the year ended 31 March Year 14 than he was during the previous year . |
| 29 | Willi came up to see how he was during the morning . |
| 30 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |