Example sentences of "and he [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That old woman did the business , word-perfect , she was perfect , the jury took one look at that little old lady and he was off the hook , she never made a slip . |
| 2 | One smack with the whip — the first time that Mill Reef had received such encouragement since the Guineas — and he was through a gap between Hallez and Ortis with less than two furlongs to race . |
| 3 | Lambert 's eyes went hazy ; he felt unconsciousness rising in him like a tide ; it drained reluctantly away , and he was through the barrage again . |
| 4 | And he was under no illusions as to what might happen to their relationship if Philippe Chaumont returned . |
| 5 | The fund 's other trustees had left and he was under an intolerable strain , working more than 12 hours a day . |
| 6 | and she was , and he was about foot fifty , something like ten years different which is very little |
| 7 | GRAMOPHONE has published a number of Rust 's discographical works , including British Dance Bands on Record , 1911–1945 ( in association with Sandy Forbes ) , and he was for many years a regular contributor to this magazine . |
| 8 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 9 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 10 | And he was to be the first of a growing number of police officers to take part once a week — as we tried to persuade our viewers to do more to help the police in preventing and solving crimes , as well as catching the villains . |
| 11 | All had agreed that one Christopher E. Chryselius would be employed in the workings , and he was to he paid one guinea a week — no mean wage . |
| 12 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 13 | Mr. Wadsworth considered this matter in the present case , and he was of the view that the criticism being made in the notice with regard to the Order 29 point of the County Court Rules was sufficient for it to be necessary for him to bring these proceedings by way of appeal before this court . |
| 14 | In Turkish sources , however , Cemaleddin 's grandfather 's name is given as Mehmed , not Isa ; he certainly was called Cemaleddin , not Bedreddin , one of his most famous works being called and he was of the ( mezheb ) , not the Hanafi . |
| 15 | She had found a man who meant more to her than anything in the world and he was of another world , as he had told her . |
| 16 | ‘ For an actor of his calibre , ’ recalls Gerald Thomas , ‘ and he was of a very high calibre indeed , he had the inability to play dialogue at the same time as he was handling props . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Apart from that , he has n't a driving licence , and he was at school on Wednesday afternoon . ’ |
| 19 | Tamar always seemed to be in a bad mood recently and he was at a loss to discover the reason . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They had drifted into a brief alliance now because she was out of work and he was at a loose end emotionally , but it had not worked . |
| 22 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And he was at London Zoo |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months . |
| 29 | It was pitch dark and felt like the small hours ; there was no sound of traffic from the road at all , and he was on his own with a vengeance . |
| 30 | And he was on that train , I 'm afraid . |