Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shiver went through him and he began to wish he were back in the bar . |
| 2 | His telephone rang almost at once ; he was through to the chief 's personal assistant , a grey-haired lady of vast experience who monitored and sometimes modulated communication ( other than face to face ) between the chief and the outside world — including his policemen . |
| 3 | Perhaps there had been a gust while he was over by the engine ? |
| 4 | Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface . |
| 5 | He was up on the podium , still a bit pale and puffy , but recovering gamely from her suicide . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ said the boy , ‘ but why did his wife say he was up on the roof if he was n't ? ’ |
| 7 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 8 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
| 9 | He was up at the crack of dawn doing something unspeakable to the turkey , but the kids were up anyway . |
| 10 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 11 | And he got his name and he was up in the quarry during the morning and he 's giving him his final warning that if he does that again he 'll book him . |
| 12 | Pete says that on one flight recently he was up in the air for nine hours so you have to take food and drink with you to keep going … in this country survival is not a problem but it can be hard when you 're flying across deserts and things like that |
| 13 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 14 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 15 | Within a short while he was on to the subject of Libya 's exports . |
| 16 | I just saw the bit where he was on about the erm short sighted hedgehog . |
| 17 | And then he was off up the stairs with Wilson , panting behind , trying to fathom the significance of his relief . |
| 18 | Each evening he was off to the local pub The Royal Oak where he apparently became the life and soul of the party . |
| 19 | Telling MPs why he was off to the ‘ icy wastes ’ of the backbenches , the ex-Fun Minister said he felt like Captain Oates — the member of Scott 's Antarctic expedition who walked out into the snow to die to give his companions a better chance of survival . |
| 20 | When Minton first met him he had already discovered Soho and , whilst telling his opera-singer mother that he was off to the Science Museum , would take the tube to Tottenham Court Road to wash dishes in the Budapest run by Victor Sassie ( later the proprietor of the Gay Hussar ) . |
| 21 | The main consideration in gaining a clear conscience is that we work out the wording carefully in advance as the prodigal son did when he was off in the far country . |
| 22 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 23 | Through the swing doors , and he had not registered what was happening to him until he was out into the late afternoon cold and the open doorway at the back of the car was yawning for him . |
| 24 | As soon as he was out of the bathroom he put on his tracksuit and hit the road . |
| 25 | He was out of the circle . |
| 26 | I was also secretly happy and secure because I knew he was out of the fighting . |
| 27 | It was partly because he was out of the top drawer , of course . |
| 28 | It was the best thing that could have happened to him — he was out of the way of everybody . |
| 29 | He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie . |
| 30 | Marian Woronin pulled up after thirty metres of his heat with a torn leg muscle , so he was out of the Championships . |