Example sentences of "he was [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what does he think he was during these years ? |
| 2 | In the morning , he was without any memory of the night before . |
| 3 | Of course Oswald Mosley , our own exponent of Fascism , went a bit far in that direction , but he was worth some support if he stuck to the Mile End Road and did n't provoke clashes in such cherished halls of entertainment as Olympia and the Albert Hall . |
| 4 | Old Andy was in Neil Neil father he was on that board . |
| 5 | He was on that jury , and he was in the sa a jury with this |
| 6 | For past all doubt he was on that path , he did find the poor soul dead , he did run to the castle , like an honest man , and tell the sheriff what he had found . |
| 7 | And he was on that train , I 'm afraid . |
| 8 | Even when you wish he was on another planet . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 10 | He was at all times placid , unruffled , cool , calm and collected . |
| 11 | He was at all times happy , said his lordship , to give his assent to any measure that could relieve the unfortunate debtor without giving an opportunity to the adulterer , the swindler etc. to take advantage of the same law — . |
| 12 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 13 | He was at that time receiving £210 , together with £20 for coal , £10 for cleaning , and £10 for gardening . |
| 14 | Held , dismissing both appeals , Findlay : ( 1 ) the judge had accepted the custody officer 's evidence that the notes in the pocket book were shown to Findlay , though he was at that time incommunicado ; and Code C 12.12 in its unamended form ( which governed this case ) only applied to interviews at police stations so that it did not require the notes in the present case to be shown to him : Brezeanu & Francis [ 1989 ] Crim.L.R. 650 . |
| 15 | By his order dated 12 May 1992 Waite J. directed that in the interim pending a further hearing in the events that ( 1 ) J. 's medical condition changed so that his life was threatened but was capable of being prolonged by intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( 2 ) he was at that time in the health authority 's care and ( 3 ) the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority were to cause such measures , including artificial ventilation , to be applied to J. for so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 16 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 17 | Having followed P C and P C as he was at that time through the door , I went immediately to the bedroom on the right hand side , the second bedroom . |
| 18 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 19 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 20 | According to Adam , he was at some time expelled from Denmark by King Eric of Sweden , unsuccessfully sought help in Norway and England , and was eventually welcomed by a rex Scothorum , with whom he lived in exile for fourteen years until Eric 's death . |
| 21 | There is no means of knowing how near to the regularised life of Thurgarton he was at this date . |
| 22 | He was at this time an exponent of the benefits of Anglo-French peace and in the Philobiblon , attributed to him and written in 1344–5 , one chapter was entitled ‘ the Complaint of Books against Wars ’ . |
| 23 | He was at this time already suffering from an ailment from which he and his friends would suffer until the end of his life — piles . |
| 24 | He was at this time , a terrible gossip . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was at this stage in his life too disinclined to indulge in retrospection and perhaps too self-absorbed to consider his mother 's life and death in the context of his own life . |
| 27 | Four moves later he was at another semi-resting place . |
| 28 | Like the one he was with that night . |
| 29 | And however well endowed he was with these qualities , he might still have difficulty on some points . |
| 30 | 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 . |