Example sentences of "[verb] he was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Student Benedict Mills , 18 , whose family live next door and use a cordless Freeway phone , said : ‘ I did n't know he was earwigging as a hobby . |
| 2 | And he maintained he was sacked on the direct orders of the RUC because they knew he was a security risk . |
| 3 | His eyes were so bright they glowed beneath the sea , and when he moved he was preceded by an evil-smelling fog on the surface of the waves . |
| 4 | Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice . |
| 5 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 6 | Instead he found he was looking at a short , rather stout middle-aged man . |
| 7 | But he found he was listening to the sonata through a hiss . |
| 8 | He found he was walking as a dog walks , its head twisted round to gaze into its master 's face , waiting for a stick to be thrown , wagging its tail . |
| 9 | Looking up , he found he was standing under a short vertical shaft , at the top of which was another trapdoor . |
| 10 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 11 | , writes : TWICE in recent weeks I have heard of a character which sounds like Notre Dames and they say he was played in a film by Orson Welles . |
| 12 | The jury , however , does not ask whether the accused believed he was acting with the relevant state of mind , but under the Theft Acts as well as offences of fraud the jury must acquit if the accused believed that what he did was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 13 | Layton , of Regent 's Park , London , believed he was acting in a ‘ perfectly legal and ethical way ’ when he hired KAS to find out more about Europarks . |
| 14 | We are like Hans Christian Anderson 's tale of the Emperor who believed he was clothed in the finest garments — but all the time he was naked . |
| 15 | They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract . |
| 16 | ‘ I imagine he was referring to the Independence Day celebrations , ’ her husband had told her as he 'd led the way into the apartment . |
| 17 | He says he was shot in a gun battle with Iraqi troops but escaped to Saudi Arabia . |
| 18 | She says he was shot in the chest . |
| 19 | Balder was a son of the most senior god , Odin , and one version of the legend says he was blessed with the gift of immunity from harm . |
| 20 | The Big Yin says he was beaten by a ‘ psychopathic ’ aunt and struck so hard by his father it was like ‘ being hit by a building ’ . |
| 21 | Danny Brady says he was threatened by a gang who then dumped all his belongings in the street . |
| 22 | Müller says he was hit by a train ! ’ |
| 23 | Mark says he was accompanied to the flat , but then realised he did n't have the right keys … he claims he offered to find Graham , but the officers broke in straight . |
| 24 | Anthony Fox , whose elderly parents were shot dead in their Moy home by loyalist gunmen last year , says he was relaxing on a sun-kissed balcony in Mallorca when he was approached by a man who asked him to contact MI5 in London . |
| 25 | He says he was told about the Oxford ring 12 years ago by the former MI5 agent , Peter Wright , whose book Spycatcher caused such a stir . |
| 26 | At the Los Angeles Open , Fred Couples says he was told by a spectator : ‘ Have a good day and do n't choke . ’ |
| 27 | Senator Jesse Helms , the arch-conservative North Carolinian Republican , says he was told by the CIA , as well as sources within Panama , that the rebels did offer to surrender General Noriega to the US . |
| 28 | When the workers took a ballot , went on strike and refused to accept a peace plan ( which by then included a wage freeze and a cut in certain benefits ) , he says he was left with no choice : ‘ I dismissed the old workforce and hired a new one . |
| 29 | Neil says he was subjected to a series of indecent assaults and beatings . |
| 30 | He says he was shattered by the news that his kidneys had failed and he had to build up his hopes again . |