Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was as quiet as I could be , but all the same , I ca n't help wondering if at some stage he realised I was on his heels . |
| 2 | It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold . |
| 3 | She estimated he was in his early thirties . |
| 4 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 5 | I guessed he was in his forties and he had a hard face with small wary eyes and tightly curled hair that was cut very short . |
| 6 | Slowly he finished what was in his mouth , his eyes roaming the plate . |
| 7 | At this point the demonstrators beleived he was on his way to prison . |
| 8 | ‘ The issue for you was that you thought I was after his money . |
| 9 | Tess felt she was in his way and went to the kitchen . |
| 10 | He knew she was on his side now . |
| 11 | Westmacott then saw two ‘ red noses ’ coming up and thought they were from his own flight , as he called his pilots to rendezvous over Takali , going down through cloud to wait for them . |
| 12 | Barrow , the former Liphook all-rounder , wants to continue playing Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and felt it was in his interests to join a division one side . |
| 13 | I do n't know whether it was because he realised how hard it 'd be for us to get enough for both of us , or whether he knew he was off his head and needed someone around who was n't , y'know what I mean , to look after the kids and sort things out , like . |
| 14 | He knew it was of his own making but that was not useful knowledge because he could not unmake it . |
| 15 | From the handwriting he knew it was from his mother , and he ran to his workshop to read it . |
| 16 | Sometimes he thought it was of his own making : he was unaccustomed to working closely with women and this one was still young and attractive which made him self-conscious . |
| 17 | Nails looked so strange she thought he was off his rocker . |
| 18 | ‘ You thought he was on his own , did n't you ? |
| 19 | Lindner thought he was on his way to Headingley on a similar deal and was expecting a contract to be faxed to him yesterday . |
| 20 | when I first saw him I thought he was in his fifties |
| 21 | Maurice surmised it was from his aunt . |
| 22 | Turner may have finally made up his mind to move after being dropped from the Newbridge side which travelled to Swansea on Saturday after Newport announced he was on his way to Rodney Parade . |
| 23 | Had he been on his own , Harry thought as he drove out of Melton Mowbray market town towards Saxby , he would have taken Mrs Appleby with him to Maythorpe House . |
| 24 | Had he been in his place on Tuesday , when my right hon. Friend made the opening speech on the Loyal Address , he would have heard him say that the Government would introduce a measure to deal with the young thugs , as my hon. Friend calls them , who indulge in joyriding , a practice which hon. Members in all parts of the House deplore ; those young people will , therefore , be offending . |
| 25 | No , we asked him and he said it was with his work mates |
| 26 | He laughed and said it was beyond his remit and that it would be a long time before public health became a genuine national concept . |
| 27 | He would n't look at me , said it was against his religion . |
| 28 | The witness said he was in his caravan at an itinerant site on the Upper Glen Road when he was woken by the sound of gunfire . |
| 29 | And , like a little child , he stopped being careful and tense for a moment and said what was in his head , quite simply . |
| 30 | When they had eaten , sitting companionably at the kitchen table , she told him how impressed she was by his unsuspected talent . |