Example sentences of "he was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs , he was down the he 's just his clothes away . |
| 2 | He was down the pub . |
| 3 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 4 | ( c ) Calculate , in terms of days , whether or not Grieg was more ( or less ) efficient in collecting his debts during the year ended 31 March Year 14 than he was during the previous year . |
| 5 | Willi came up to see how he was during the morning . |
| 6 | As for the King , Tyndale asserted that he was above the law and was obliged to account for his actions only to God . |
| 7 | He was above the idea of taking advantage of headhunters through accepting free lunches and trips without intending to move : ‘ Time is one 's most valuable commodity . ’ |
| 8 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 9 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 10 | Her door was set back so that she did n't see him until he was past the cars in the centre of the courtyard . |
| 11 | He forced his way through the rye till he was past the chestnuts , then turned to his right . |
| 12 | But when he came to trade them in and filled in his application , he was told he was beyond the age limit . |
| 13 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 14 | Where did he used to stay when he was up the glen ? |
| 15 | And then he was up the stairs to her room , to find there her few poor possessions — but still no Sally-Anne . |
| 16 | He said he 's like to try just not er old en Robert Hardy 's our special patron really here , he 's very interested in coming to the banquet , he was up the other week was n't he , last Friday whenever it was . |
| 17 | , well he was up the side of the . |
| 18 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 19 | He wandered from room to room without aim , and without knowing whether he was on the top floor or in the basement , ‘ just up and up and on and on and on ’ . |
| 20 | Not long ago he was on the phone to me moaning about Paul saying , he wo n't give me the time of day . |
| 21 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 22 | He was on the telephone to his wife in Turin when his chauffeur ( who also died ) drove the armour-plated car through a red light into a bus . |
| 23 | It took his score for the season to 20 and , ironically , he was on the receiving end of an unsuccessful objection . |
| 24 | There were rumours after he had a stroke last March that he was on the brink of retirement and that he wished to go . |
| 25 | By the end of that first tour he was on the cover of Rolling Stone . |
| 26 | McLeish had rung his own flat to collect messages ; he could see Catherine just waking , and waved to her to indicate that he was on the phone . |
| 27 | The Iraqis ' suspicions of his links with Iran , Israel and America ( he was on the CIA 's payroll ) were reinforced when , that year , he said : ‘ If support were strong enough we could control the Kirkuk oilfield and give it to an American company to operate ’ . |
| 28 | He was on the warpath looking for the killer dog . |
| 29 | Simon , yesterday , denying he was on the prom at all . |
| 30 | As the Fifties ended he was on the point of multiplying millions by opening the first Playboy Club , in Chicago , where the girls , not the customers , were dressed as rabbits . |