Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] he [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were rumours after he had a stroke last March that he was on the brink of retirement and that he wished to go . |
| 2 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 3 | Then he finally — after months of trying — convinced ex-Bros and Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins that he was worth more than one ‘ embarrassed ’ business meeting . |
| 4 | The earlier she was killed , the better it looks for Willard because he was in college till gone five , right ? ’ |
| 5 | Prince later wrote to Gould when he was in Australia , complaining that Alfred Newton had been ‘ far , far too complimentary ’ about Lear 's part in the publication , ‘ particularly when we know that most of the subscribers are of the opinion that his plates are almost the only exceptionable part of your work . ’ |
| 6 | Smith signed London-born Stimson from Tottenham when he was in charge at Newcastle . |
| 7 | A nurse who had cared devotedly for Nigel when he was at home agreed to ice it for me . |
| 8 | I learned a lot from Ellery Hanley when he was at Wigan . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Of course , your coach is Clive Woodward and he was in the grand slam winning side of nineteen eighty was n't he ? |
| 11 | Yeah , he killed Romeo because he was in the opposite house , he was an enemy |
| 12 | Mrs Tiller presided over the one in Blackpool while he was at the grander one in Addlestone , Surrey , to which , when the Girls were playing in London , he would invite small groups for a short weekend . |
| 13 | He carried a stick to aid his ailing right leg which had been broken deliberately by the STB while he was in prison . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've known Geoffrey since he was at prep school . |
| 15 | So Lady , we 've never found any gentlemen old enough to play old William because he was in his seventies at this time , we never found an old gentleman play William , Robert Hardy 's not quite old enough . |
| 16 | Only last year he was the patriot who told his friend George Bush that he was against the Gulf war . |
| 17 | Joe dare n't argue with them as he was afraid to therefore he made sure to Pip that he was on his side by adding gravy to his plate . |
| 18 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |
| 19 | This morning I spoke briefly to Terry Waite while he was on board the aircraft returning home and was able to express the delight that I and the whole country felt at his safe return and at Mr. Sutherland 's release . |
| 20 | The report had initially been commissioned by Arthur Greenwood when he was in the War Cabinet : its purpose had been to recommend measures to consolidate existing welfare provisions , which tended to vary from one scheme to another . |
| 21 | No sooner was it known in France that he was in the Texel , than a courier was dispatched with orders for him to go overland to Paris , where he says he is to have the grant of a fresh commission and a larger squadron , sufficient to make a descent on any part of Great Britain or Ireland … |
| 22 | But we were in a dungeon in Lebanon and he was in a safe house in the Home Counties . |
| 23 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | Both are also accused of the attempted murder of police constables John Jenkinson , 27 , and Simon Castrey , 27 , allegedly stabbed by Vernage while he was on the run . |
| 26 | They had not told him they were not going back to Antibes and she saw no point in trying to talk to him about Maurin or Sabine Jourdain or Barbara Coleman while he was in this state . |
| 27 | In 1974 , I opposed the referendum on Europe when he was in favour of it . |
| 28 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 29 | CHESHIRE housewife Tamara Kennerley , a girlfriend of Clinton when he was at Oxford , was among the first to offer her congratulations . |
| 30 | So far , she had killed no one , but the vicar of St Andrew 's had once had to call in Doctor Bailey as he was in agony with severe stomach pains , and had had to admit that he had taken tea and sandwiches with a peculiar and pungent filling , at Dotty Harmer 's a few hours before . |