Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] he was [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt the sufferings of the world most keenly when he was confronted with those who were weakest , most vulnerable , least able to defend themselves — refugees : men and women with no home to go to , and , most bereft of all refugees , children . |
| 2 | All agreed to this , and then another knight , Sir Peter de la Mare , who was the Earl of March 's steward , summed up the debate so skilfully that he was chosen by the commons to speak on their behalf before the lords . |
| 3 | It 's been all downhill since he was wrenched from the helm of Private Eye by his homuncular protégé Ian Hislop . |
| 4 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 5 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 6 | Priestley supported them and made it well known , so much so that he was asked not to attend the dinner — just in case . |
| 7 | But Fritz was n't too perturbed what his rooms were used for — so long as he was paid , and many factions and organizations , both political and criminal , operating in London used the Warehouse Hotel , as it was called , for their meetings . |
| 8 | But he said , thoughtfully , that he believed the Robemaker would weave anything so long as he was paid sufficiently highly . |
| 9 | He jumped , but only just before he was pushed . |
| 10 | Visiting his brethren in Southern Rhodesia he attacked apartheid in a sermon in Salisbury Cathedral so directly that he was deported and declared an ‘ undesirable visitor ’ by the UDI regime . |
| 11 | In 1911 Law was known — in so far as he was known at all in the parliamentary party — as a spirited debater . |
| 12 | AN old lag has vowed to go straight — because police treated him so kindly when he was banged up in their station . |
| 13 | Afterwards he had completed his training as a fighter pilot , performing so well that he was assigned to take an instructors ' course with the Navy at San Diego . |
| 14 | Of interest in this story is the fact not only that he was forced by poverty to abandon teaching and become a kasabat kadi but also that he was able to re-enter the medrese stream . |
| 15 | But it was not long before he was identified as the former Neath and Swansea star who switched codes in 1987 . |
| 16 | His parachute opened , but as he reached the ground a 25 m.p.h. wind pulled him over backwards and he was knocked out . |
| 17 | He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies . |
| 18 | The Archbishop of York said that Charles 's position of Supreme Governor of the Church of England would not be affected by the breakdown of his marriage — not even if he was divorced . |
| 19 | We know very little of these early years , beyond that it was a family of privilege , untouched by the economic scourge that surrounded it , though Nathan Cohen must frequently have feared it might touch them , too — not least when he was blessed with a much hoped-for son , whom he named Leonard Norman . |
| 20 | He muttered over and over again that he was stymied . |
| 21 | Once shortly after he was arrested and over the weekend when he was examined by a police surgeon . ’ |
| 22 | Police have said he fell ill twice , once shortly after he was arrested , and half-hourly checks were made in case his condition deteriorated . |
| 23 | He was treated a little harshly because he was aged and equivalent in rank to the vast majority of the officer instructors . |
| 24 | Culley tracked left and found him again , startled by the way the image was drawn to stand before him , as if his voice must be heard , as if the man must see as clearly as he was seen — Levis , stetson , a loose shirt ; a rifle cradled in one arm . |
| 25 | There he became a world champion in a year filled with controversy and difficulty and there he learned that he neither really liked being world champion ( it was inhibiting ) nor really driving fast cars as fast as he was expected to ( they were thoroughly frightening ) . |
| 26 | I said that is a he did n't deny it er and he said that driver wo n't come back again because he was hoodwinked into coming up . |
| 27 | He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face . |
| 28 | He swung his legs around so that he was perched on the edge of the bunk . |
| 29 | They were then struggling at 127 for four with 16 overs remaining but Byas pulled Caddick for six to restore confidence , which was boosted even further when he was dropped on the boundary edge by Andy Hayhurst when 27 . |
| 30 | Well I did n't actually but he was arsed I just said oh thanks very much ! |