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

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1 On 16 December 1991 the father pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm to D. and he was remanded on bail until 24 January 1992 for sentence .
2 An application for bail was refused by Richmond magistrates and he was remanded in custody for a further seven days .
3 The local cop was called and he was looking for Howie . ’
4 Operation afforded the only prospect of recovery and he was assisted by Dr. Phillips and Mr. Skelding .
5 Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery .
6 He was not only a fine footballer , he was also a gentleman to the Nth degree , and he told the story , I remember , he started his erm , professional football career in this country , with Barnsley , and he was transferred from Barnsley to Aston Villa , and at the time there was some haggling over the fee , and er , he was taken by the chairman of Barnsley , to meet the chairman of Aston Villa in the chairman 's Rolls Royce .
7 Edward II ordered his arrest , and he was convicted of treason and executed in January 1323 .
8 And he was convicted of theft !
9 The irony of excessive expenses incurred for Karl Marx 's daughter was n't lost on Rosenberg , but Aveling called his accusations ridiculous , and he was defended from England by Engels who brushed off Aveling 's embezzlements as the pranks of a boyish ‘ noodle ’ .
10 His style turned out to be somewhat autocratic and abrasive , and he was regarded with suspicion and some dislike by the older departmental managers .
11 I had to climb off and lead him out , and he was covered in mud all down one side . ’
12 His feet were bleeding and he was covered in dust .
13 This left him dreadfully depressed and he was treated for melancholia and insomnia .
14 They had not achieved the essential element of surprise on which he had counted , and he was filled with foreboding .
15 Then the riots blazed and he was plucked from barracks , given a month 's emergency training and sent into the streets .
16 ‘ Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital . ’
17 Within a few days , however , anxiety had set in and he was confiding in Rohde his fear that a book that crossed so many conventional demarcation lines might deter all his prospective specialist readers : " the philologists wo n't read it because of the music and the philology … " ; and regarding the classical readership in particular , Rohde would know " how offended the philologists are bound to be at anything not published by Teubner and without the paraphernalia of critical notes " .
18 There was blood everywhere and he was screaming for help .
19 The scene completed , a car took Burton straight to the airport and he was flown to Los Angeles and admitted to hospital .
20 Oliver 's small possessions were put into a brown paper parcel , and he was led to Mr Sowerberry 's house by Mr Bumble .
21 But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey .
22 He was wearing a wetsuit and lifejacket but seawater in the river made it icy cold and he was gasping with exhaustion as he was pulled out , suffering from a shoulder injury .
23 His robes were wet with perspiration and he was gasping for breath .
24 A friend called me up who went to the City game , and he was raving about Leeds .
25 Troy has the mental age of a seven-year-old and he was sentenced to death for kidnap and murder , though Mr Stafford Smith does not accept that he did it .
26 His parents were Ukrainian , and he was born in Germany .
27 And he was born in Italy , not London .
28 He was awarded the Geological Society 's R. H. Worth prize for his contributions in the field of vertebrate paleontology and he was featured on television with Sir David Attenborough .
29 After the Suez Canal affair , Sir Anthony Eden felt obliged to resign as Prime Minister in 1957 , and he was replaced with Harold Macmillan .
30 Portsmouth then lost Warren Aspell with an ankle injury and he was replaced by Sean Murray .
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