Example sentences of "he was [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what does he think he was during these years ? |
| 2 | She stressed what a violent man he was during this first marriage : ‘ But , after the break-up , Joan just wanted to forget him . ’ |
| 3 | In the morning , he was without any memory of the night before . |
| 4 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 5 | Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity . |
| 6 | There he was above all an observer of life , carrying on — forgive the pun those observations into the characters he played . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was carrying his billhook and was dressed as he was on that last dreadful autumn afternoon , a singlet stained with his sweat , the shorts high cut , showing as he walked the bulge of the scrotum , the white legs , matted with black hair from the knees down . |
| 9 | And he was on that train , I 'm afraid . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Old Andy was in Neil Neil father he was on that board . |
| 12 | He was on that jury , and he was in the sa a jury with this |
| 13 | ‘ But I ca n't picture him any other way than the little boy he was on that last day I saw him . ’ |
| 14 | That 's what he was on that at that time . |
| 15 | Even when you wish he was on another planet . |
| 16 | As an important Liverpool trader , he was on most of the parliamentary committees concerning trade , monopolies , and navigation . |
| 17 | And he could n't drink while he was on those could he ? |
| 18 | I do n't think he was at all well known abroad but in Austria he was famous for his wit . |
| 19 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was at all times placid , unruffled , cool , calm and collected . |
| 22 | 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 — . |
| 23 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 24 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 25 | Alexandra took her father over every inch of her domain and he nodded at her enthusiasm , but if he was at all impressed by what she did , what she planned , he gave no sign . |
| 26 | Just because he knew about her it did not mean he was at all reliable . |
| 27 | When I took him in he was at such a stage he had to go in in a wheelchair . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was at that time receiving £210 , together with £20 for coal , £10 for cleaning , and £10 for gardening . |
| 30 | 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 . |