Example sentences of "[noun] he [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |
| 2 | With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance . |
| 3 | After getting out of his car he was attacked by the youths , who were in their late teens and wore dark clothing . |
| 4 | As I got out of the car he was coming down the steps of Skeldale House and he put a hand on my arm . |
| 5 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 6 | When he reappeared apologetically in London to plead for clemency he was sent to the Tower , while in the north itself the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland blundered into ill-planned revolt . |
| 7 | Fraser 's experienced big money racing … after a year working on the Oracle boat he was dorpped before the Admiral 's Cup . |
| 8 | In his first season at Arsenal he was cast in the role of footballer turned male model . |
| 9 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 10 | Following penicillin and cefotaxime administration he was transferred to the intensive care unit , where he made a complete recovery . |
| 11 | Dr. Brill 's love of music is also well known , and after lunch he was entertained by the choir and orchestra of Perin 's Community School , under the direction of their head of music , Richard Stannard . |
| 12 | The plaintiff went to work in a new job after the accident and while at work he was shot in the left leg during an armed robbery . |
| 13 | In recognition of his public work he was knighted in the 1911 New Year 's honours and in 1919 appointed CBE . |
| 14 | Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you say ten past four ? ’ she said weakly , and after a quick nod he was striding down the corridor , to disappear through the swing door that marked the boundary of the endocrine ward 's domain . |
| 16 | He might have missed the first onslaught of punk , but he caught a lot of its stylish offsprings , especially Postcard Records ' Orange Juice and Josef K. He was smitten with the sound of rhythm guitars meshed together to form pop melodies and was beginning to realise precisely how he wanted his own band to sound . |
| 17 | As his feet touched the bottom he was thinking of the tanks the Allies had intended to land on the rocky promontory before him ; clearly this was not possible , for now in the starlight he could see its rock face was impassable . |
| 18 | What would happen if the Institute were not accepted on a new Register ? was glad of the opportunity to speak on the matter and as the Institute representative on the Committee he was disturbed by the lack of progress by the appointed agent . |
| 19 | The truth is that while batting in the indoor nets he was struck on the toe by a ball from paceman Chris Lewis and an X-ray over the weekend revealed he had indeed suffered a cracked bone . |
| 20 | His Missouri childhood gave him access to Baptist hymns and church music , but at Harvard he was introduced to the writings of Gertrude Stein and the music of Erik Satie . |
| 21 | On 28 January he was expelled from the Party , to be followed later by several prominent supporters of his campaign . |
| 22 | As a child he was haunted by the absent presence of a dead sister stolen away by the death-dealing forces of an unfathomable universe . |
| 23 | When Butler first began his campaign he was ignored by the British Darwinians , but by the 1890s Lamarckism was being taken seriously even in Darwin 's home country . |
| 24 | On the evening of 14 July he was flicking through the London Evening News when he spotted an article which said that the ban on commercial flights between Britain and the rest of Europe had been lifted . |
| 25 | The fair hair had faded to a dusty grey , and his skin looked pale and unhealthy , as if he spent too much time indoors , but the green eyes were lusty with life and rebellion against the confines of the wheelchair he was manoeuvring into the room — |
| 26 | ‘ Mike 's changed , ’ Laidlaw answered , staring at the beer can he was turning on the table . |
| 27 | As a skilled shipwright he was invited by the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629 to settle in New England , and became a freeman there in 1631 . |
| 28 | On his return he was taken to the sleeping cell and , following the usual routine , was locked in , but on the next day the cell was empty ; he had broken the stone to which the iron grid was fixed . |
| 29 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 30 | During the First World War he was occupied with the Jurassic rocks of Raasay in connection with the exploitation of the ironstone and wrote a memoir on the subject , published in 1920 . |