Example sentences of "[coord] he [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she was , and he was about foot fifty , something like ten years different which is very little |
| 2 | Trevelyan wrote during the course of the , of the , of the war , and it was of course a book which was read by enormous numbers of people erm particularly after the end of the war , and he was of course the nephew of erm Macaulay , and therefore he 's in line with another of the great books on English history which were written in the middle of the nineteenth century , Macaulay 's A History of England , which also had as many sales as Trevelyan 's . |
| 3 | At that time he owned supply wagons contracted to the army and he was at Fort Thomas when this boy who was called Ish-kay-nay was brought in with some prisoners . |
| 4 | And he was at London Zoo |
| 5 | Apart from that , he has n't a driving licence , and he was at school on Wednesday afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | Well I said to Diane you know , I did n't laugh , I did n't think it was funny , I thought it was sad and I said but he needs help , if Vaughan 's you know , he 's got two sons , but Mark 's a bit hopeless and he was at Oxford anyway , I said surely somebody should go and get him some some treatment , sanitation . |
| 7 | Whether it was the Trooping of the Colour , a state visit , or Remembrance Sunday , whatever the time or day of the week , the dates were in his diary and he was on parade without fail and without question . |
| 8 | As the weather improved and the days lengthened Anne saw John several times , but usually she was on her bicycle and he was on foot . |
| 9 | came up to say it was a matter of time he probably would n't last the weekend he was dying and he was on morphine tablets |
| 10 | In 1581 he travelled to France with Richard and Francis Edwardes of Chirkland , and he was with Richard in Rome on 6 November 1582 . |
| 11 | Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew . |
| 12 | And the third man kneeling , the navigator who was from Milford M I L F O R D , Utah , and the last man is and he was from Dekalb , D E K A L B , Illinois . |
| 13 | And he was from Bangor . |
| 14 | no a couple of weeks later , erm , we , we went on a big route marching stuff and he was in agony the old stubble |
| 15 | And he was in love , surely ? she asked herself , frowning . |
| 16 | Then the light on the landing went out and he was in silhouette . |
| 17 | he assaulted me a f few times and the last time he did it I involved the police and he was in court last Thursday and he was found guilty of assault . |
| 18 | They were no threat to him ; they were far away , and he was in tree-shade , and had nothing bright about him to catch the light . |
| 19 | they er and Harry Secombe lived down the road from me and he was in Cheam , and he was erm |
| 20 | Shaved this Lieutenant Sergeant Major eyebrow off when he was sleeping one night , and he was in front of the , the Colonel Chief and Regional so what he did , he , cos it , it took , taken ages , took about three months to grow back , so what he did was he shaved the other one off as well |
| 21 | I 'm , I , I noticed er Ricky , they were coming across I was er washing the erm venetian blinds up in the er er bedrooms and he came out with his young lady and er they came down ac across the grass and he was in front , and he jumped over the fence at the bottom , and she this little , and she was ha was having to climb and she was stuck th like that , and he looked back and thought she , he , she was with him and when he s and er he went back , but he went back , and I thought to myself oh like a gentleman , and lifted her over . |
| 22 | He always felt comfortable with his knowledge of the field and he was in command all the way . |
| 23 | General Mola was inferior in rank and had less prestige among the military , but he did have two factors in his favour : he was the director of the conspiracy and he was in command of all the rebel troops in the northern half of the country , thus " mirroring " Franco 's command in the south . |
| 24 | no , but she sort of said , about her mum and dad , I mean , it 's true , 'cos her dad was on overseas pay and he was in Cyprus , and it 's it 's different now that they 're back in England . |
| 25 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 26 | These could , probably more easily in early , rather than in later man , have been powerful enough to cause him to seek a substitute for his natural father or mother when they were no longer available to him , and he was in need . |
| 27 | One of my old friends at Decca was Hugh Mendl and he was in charge of the singles department . |
| 28 | And he was in charge of sixteen year-old kids on a night out . |
| 29 | His private practice expanded and he was in charge of works at Abingdon Abbey in 1375–6 , but continued to carry out commissions for the Crown , at Corfe Castle , Dorset , in 1377 ; and the following year , with Henry Yevele [ q.v. ] , on the defences of Southampton . |
| 30 | An American army sergeant arrived at the airport one day who befriended me and he was in charge of an artillery spotting plane called the Piper Cub which they gave a small corner of the airfield to . |