Example sentences of "[adv] he [was/were] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came down he was wearing a professional air and said the symptoms were those of food poisoning . |
| 2 | On another level , perhaps he was fighting a wayward spirit he could not control . |
| 3 | When it was over he was given a Military Cross by the British , and the Croix de Guerre by the French . |
| 4 | The father-of-three became chairman of the Bar Council in 1972 and three years later he was made a High Court Judge and was immediately appointed to the Chancery Division . |
| 5 | A few minutes later he was uncorking a fine claret in Masha 's room , saying he had something to celebrate : he 'd been invited to breakfast at Downing Street to help brief Maggie for her trip to Poland . |
| 6 | Two months later he was fined a further £100 and banned from the touchline until the end of that season for remarks to a linesman during a game at Dundee United . |
| 7 | Whenever he was shown a new sexual technique , he would use it the very next night on his new partner . |
| 8 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 9 | It turned out he was escaping a planned course of ECT because no one on his ward believed he might have a drink problem . |
| 10 | Often he was fighting a lonely battle . |
| 11 | Today he was wearing a clerical collar , as was , more often than Canon Wheeler , his habit . |
| 12 | Two weeks ago he was given a seven-year sentence for two rapes and two serious sexual assaults . |
| 13 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 14 | A SPLIT second earlier he was driving a racing car . |
| 15 | You may not recall that , when Edgar Oldroyd asked him how he was enjoying a long spell bowling into the wind , he answered , ‘ It 's like bowling up t'bloody cellar steps . ’ |
| 16 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 17 | Cabinet ministers were exasperated that he allowed last Thursday , when he was facing a big test in the Commons , to be dominated by the resignation of a junior member of the Cabinet . |
| 18 | Reformed junkie Davies , who has served two prison sentences , met stunning Fiona Brown , 28 , when he was given a two-year probation order for theft . |
| 19 | • After serving 18 months in the wilderness as punishment for running Michael Heseltine 's leadership challenge , East Hampshire MP Michael Mates was welcomed in from the cold this week when he was given a ministerial post by the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | The turning point was Denis Law 's infamous transfer debacle in 1973 when he was given a free transfer by United and crossed Manchester to Maine Road to join Manchester City . |
| 21 | Later that evening , when he was playing a desultory game of Scrabble with Broughton and Hoddnett , two of the older boys , he casually brought the subject up . |
| 22 | This was both a matter of pride and of business sense at a time when he was making a major export drive towards America . |
| 23 | The bus he boarded headed off on the 2 hour trip to Nagasaki , where he was to visit a Dutch theme park which commemorates early Dutch trading links with feudal Japan . |
| 24 | Earlier yesterday Ms Place had shown the world heavyweight boxing champion , Riddick Bowe , around Mogadishu , where he was making a brief charity visit . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Major , who has learned much about smiling through adversity , beamed pleasantly through adversity , beamed pleasantly through most of the play from his comfortable position next to the Pressbox on the ground where he was spent a large portion of his life . |
| 26 | Between his wanderings he sat in the farmhouse at St. Cleer , where he was considered a definite eccentric by his Cornish relatives . |
| 27 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |