Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Similar protestations were no doubt uttered by Billy The Kid whenever he was discovered astride a corpse holding a smoking gun . |
2 | Of course , he had known they would use the Microwave Gun on him ; they always did when he was up in front of somebody , whenever he was at a disadvantage anyway and needed all the help he could get , whenever he was going for an interview for a job , or being asked things by the Social security people or even clerks in the Post Office . |
3 | Too young to be hired as a full-blown CI , he was signed up on the spot as a ‘ subsource ’ , a convenient arrangement whereby he was paid by a DEA CI , rather than by the agency itself , so that , in the interests of ‘ deniability ’ , his name did not have to appear on any official payroll records . |
4 | Love notes written by the accused to Miss Whitehead were also found which showed how he was consumed with a jealous sexual obsession after she had refused to sleep with him , the court heard . |
5 | A FEW weeks ago TeleClub featured Kristian Schmid ( Todd in ‘ Neighbours ’ ) and how he was looking for a boy or girl from Northern Ireland to join his Steel Can Recycling Board . |
6 | Mr Stokle described how he was screaming as the car 's interior burned . |
7 | A DARLINGTON barman last night told how he was terrorised during a £10,000 robbery at a town bar . |
8 | Dexter explained how he was wavering about the list of suspects : one moment thinking it consisted of only a handful of people and then believing almost anyone in the building could have done it . |
9 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
10 | The star of The Colour Of Money is telling pals how he was let off a speeding ticket by a traffic policeman recently . |
11 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
12 | Ronnie saw 49-year-old Mick in Los Angeles and asked how he was coping with the separation . |
13 | In Andrew Allan 's book of memoirs he relates how he was standing in the lobby of the New York Hotel Algonquin in the summer of 1947 when a man came up to him and said ‘ I 'm Robert Service and I think I recognise you . |
14 | We all learned about him in school , how he was attacked by a savage hound and killed it by knocking a hurley ball slam into its mouth . ’ |
15 | He went from Rugby to the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , whence he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 28 July 1915 . |
16 | Trevor Miles broke his left arm in three places when he was pushed into a wall by some boys at school . |
17 | Tumilty earned a penalty stroke in the 23rd minute when he was fouled in the circle and Newry High School defender Ivan Steen , who had an impressive debut , converted from the spot . |
18 | The footpath passes ( on the right ) the Beroldingen castle which probably occupies the site of the earlier castle of 1530 ; attached is a chapel added to it in 1546 by Josua von Beroldingen when he was accepted into the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem . |
19 | The victim suffered cuts and bruises when he was assaulted by a man in Raven Meols Lane , Formby , Sefton . |
20 | Mr Ashraf was seriously hurt last year when he was stabbed with a ceremonial sword in the Cowley area , but police say the two incidents are n't linked . |
21 | Our passage continues a description of Titus Groan 's childhood as heir to the phantasmagorical mansion of Gormenghast : [ 19 ] Who are the characters ? ( 1 ) And what has he [ Titus ] learned of them and of his home since that far day when he was born to the Countess of Groan in a room alive with birds ? ( 2 ) . |
22 | After the Restoration , pursuing his erstwhile reversion on Edmund 's behalf , he was pronounced unfit for a tellership , but he kept out of trouble until 1671 , when he was sent to the Tower on suspicion of involvement in the conspiracy of Colonel Thomas Blood [ q.v . ] . |
23 | The Philippines has been wondering what to do about Mrs Marcos ever since she fled to Hawaii with her husband Ferdinand when he was deposed by a revolt in 1986 . |
24 | His greatest moment came in July 1977 when he was sacked from the manager 's post at Manchester United after disclosing the fact that he was having an affair with Mary Brown , wife of the club 's physiotherapist , Laurie Brown . |
25 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
26 | His company , a family business , was recently sold against his wishes and the British Steel Challenge was announced at a time when he was looking for a complete change of direction . |
27 | A POLICEMAN beaten and stabbed to death when he was called to a disturbance died at the hands of a brutal generation with no concept of right or wrong , a close friend said at his funeral yesterday . |
28 | EMO was walking out of a studio one day when he was struck by a taxi . |
29 | Byrne was walking towards his home along the Londonderry/Dublin road in the early hours when he was struck by a car . |
30 | A PARTIALLY-sighted man suffered fatal injuries when he was struck by a car while crossing a road without using his white stick . |