Example sentences of "[coord] he was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He either knew what was happening to the economy at the last election and lied or he was living in a fool 's paradise unaware of the damage he was doing . ’
2 as well , had a little do with a little boy called Shane , he decided he wanted to come into the story with a , in his blue car , I explained that on the day of the choose he could either come in and have a story or he was to play with the blue car outside , well he had a fit , he 's rattling the door , anyway , I did n't realize there was this childminder that he had with him not er his mum , cos she came and had her sort of say and things
3 The fella 's name was a Corporal and he was killed in a train wreck at Ipswich while he was going on leave going to London .
4 His force was ambushed a little short of its objective and he was killed by the French and their Indian allies .
5 Orchard had been granted a rent for his ‘ good and praiseworthy service and counsel ’ in 1475 , and he was engaged as a contractor for several parts of the college buildings , including the great west window of the chapel to his own ‘ portraiture ’ ( design ) .
6 As the world knows , Roth grew up in Newark , New Jersey , a second-generation American Jew , and he was to turn into a citizen of the world , a famous cosmopolitan author .
7 The wild bohemianism of the life at Kisling 's was stimulating and hectic but a drain on Modigliani 's limited energy and he was looking for a change in his life .
8 I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on .
9 And then his mind cleared , and he was looking at the Robemaker and feeling contempt for him again , feeling as well , the dangerous , powerful white spears of the Stroicim Inchinn withdraw , so that he knew the Robemaker had again called up the Stroicim without giving any outward indication of having done so .
10 I came out of church one day , to do some visiting , from the over sixties , and there was a boy with a a great chunk of rock in his hand , and he was looking at the window .
11 ‘ Just what 're you getting at , young Angel ? ’ he asked , narrowing his eyes the same way he did when he had a cigarette going and he was looking in a petrol tank .
12 Acute self poisoning was suspected , and he was transferred to the Princess Alexandra Hospital .
13 And he was tormented by the idea , by the conviction , that he had missed something .
14 Although McMahon at first was an abrasive force in midfield , where United missed the steadying influence of the injured Robson , he began to lose possession — and control — in his first Manchester derby , and he was robbed of the ball by Sharpe and McClair .
15 The famous Swedish Don Giovanni , John Forsell , declared that the young Tauber was the greatest Ottavio he had ever heard , and he was noted for the intense conviction with which he declaimed to his Donna Anna ( in the German text then still generally in use , even at festivals ) the solemn oath , ‘ Ich schwöre ’ .
16 Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted .
17 McMahon works for Harvard 's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics , and he was consulted about the design of Harvard 's newest running track .
18 He was being sick right and he was hanging over the banisters like this these flats and I could n't stop laughing .
19 Of Turkey 's seven presidents to date , only one ( Mr Celal Bayar ) has been a civilian , and he was ousted by the army in 1960 .
20 I could tell he was angry because he was red in the face and his fists were clenched and he was swearing like a trooper .
21 He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile .
22 So many refugees had panicked and he was lost in the throng .
23 The sea soon carried him away , and he was lost in the darkness .
24 His crew were in pairs , going on a house-to-house , and he was ticking off the cleared locations on his streetmap .
25 Alexander spoke such broad Scots that in London he was not understood , and he was sent to a private tutor until he was fifteen , then to University College School .
26 And he was drinking from the Easter one ? ’
27 Hurley handed him a Turkish passport with a West German visa and he was escorted over the green line into Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus .
28 As a well-known republican who had twice taken arms against Britain he could not expect clemency , and he was shot by a firing squad in Kilmainham gaol 5 May 1916 .
29 Though neither of them mentioned it , she was obviously feeling much the same as he was and he was overcome by a longing to rush to her side , hold her , comfort her , whisper that everything would be fine .
30 That evening , in the hall , Mariot entertained them with songs , accompanied by the harp , to their enjoyment ; although Ramsay qualified his rapture by some regret that , there being insufficient room in their ingle-neuk for playing the harp , she had to perform outside it , and he was deprived of the nearness which he found so much to his taste .
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