Example sentences of "he was [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he was on the same traffic spot as myself and he told me , ‘ They 're after me . |
| 2 | The strange thing was they did n't seem to mind that he was on the same terms with judges , cops and lawyers . |
| 3 | However , reading his piece ( Market Place , July 112 ) I wonder if he was at the same Royal Show as I was . |
| 4 | He was at the same time very simple and very noble . |
| 5 | A staunch Methodist with an evangelical conviction that film exists to serve the Lord , he was at the same time the head of the family flour-milling business and imbued with a Yorkshire respect for ‘ brass ’ and profitability . |
| 6 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 7 | You could put your hand up and ask questions , and you were n't all up at a level on him , he was at the same level as you , talking , and he knew all our abilities so he explained things more clearly to us . |
| 8 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |
| 9 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 10 | It seemed inconceivable that he was of the same race as the two vibrancers sitting near him ; inconceivable , too , that they shared his art . |
| 11 | He was of the same cut as Piers , tall and dark , but his face was more animated , his eyes not so heavy-lidded and languorous . |
| 12 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 13 | He was about the same height as his wife but he looked stooped now , and he was wearing a dressing-gown ; normally he was the epitome of tweedy country-squiredom , an archetypal laird in three-piece suit , clumpy shoes , checked shirt and cap ; he resorted to a beaten-up , much reproofed Barbour when the weather turned particularly foul . |
| 14 | While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies . |
| 15 | The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street . |
| 16 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 17 | If he was in a such a desperate hurry he could have gone down and gone over there . |
| 18 | He was in the same mould as Neubauer , the Mercedes manager : not flamboyant , but an ice-cold organiser , logical and rational . |
| 19 | He was in the same year as Mr Morpurgo — and Mr Dysart . |
| 20 | Or sixty two rather but his father lived until he was eighty six and his father was the District Goods and Passenger Manager at Cambridge and er later on , of course , er when he was old enough , he , he was in the same office as his father was but not the same position , you see , but he was a clerk , a railway clerk , and his brother was Stationmaster of Colchester and his grandfather was also a Stationmaster and that would be in Queen Victoria 's reign when , when railways first began and then again , you see , in those first days , you see , when there were highwaymen and that sort of thing erm signalmen , signalmen were issued with a truncheon for their own safety , you see , and I 've got one . |
| 21 | He was in the same three-ball as Garth McGimpsey , Ulsters top amateur and contender for next week 's British Amateur Championship at Royal Portrush . |
| 22 | So erm they would n't take him in the army but he , he was in the more or less he was , he was in the map making department . |
| 23 | Aye but he was behind the this cos they 're all in the in the same boat you know , they 're all families , family affair is n't it . |