Example sentences of "[noun sg] he was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With reference to real , external time , by day 9 of the experiment he was acting like a night-worker , even though he always go up at what he called 0800 and then ate breakfast . |
| 2 | After getting out of his car he was attacked by the youths , who were in their late teens and wore dark clothing . |
| 3 | As I got out of the car he was coming down the steps of Skeldale House and he put a hand on my arm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There were warning signals in between , and as a result he was placed on an at-risk register three weeks before he died . |
| 6 | Once down in the snow he was overtaken by a heavy lethargy . |
| 7 | Corpus Christi College employed him too , from 1605 to 1607 , in 1609 , and from 1615 to 1616 ; in his third period of working for the college he was assisted by a pupil , Henry Wilcocke . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 10 | Fraser 's experienced big money racing … after a year working on the Oracle boat he was dorpped before the Admiral 's Cup . |
| 11 | Following penicillin and cefotaxime administration he was transferred to the intensive care unit , where he made a complete recovery . |
| 12 | He 'd play last across with the trains , no wonder he was killed by a train , he had many near misses , he always appears on the anniversary of his death and you would see the whole incident in startling detail . ’ |
| 13 | He was , he said , threatened with murder ; and when he travelled round his diocese he was preceded by a troop of horse which broke up the illegal meetings . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In recognition of his public work he was knighted in the 1911 New Year 's honours and in 1919 appointed CBE . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Forty or so years after his escape he was engaged as a consultant on the film A Night to Remember , made at Pinewood . |
| 24 | 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 — |
| 25 | ‘ Mike 's changed , ’ Laidlaw answered , staring at the beer can he was turning on the table . |
| 26 | After a while , Ackroyd thought that he belonged to one of the local farms , and that because of his pale complexion he was recovering from an illness . |
| 27 | After capture he was arraigned on a charge of sabotage , and was shot in Rome . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This ‘ business ’ characteristic does not require that he should regularly carry on business as an agent but simply that on the occasion in question he was acting as a business proposition . |
| 30 | 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 . |