Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pacific satellite system , just emerging when he was writing in the 1970s , turns the tripod into a quadripod . |
| 2 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 3 | He was looking at the two Apaches . |
| 4 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 5 | He was screaming at the two men , trying to frighten them . |
| 6 | And as a supporter of H. H. Asquith ( later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ) he was crushed in the 1918 election by a Lloyd George Liberal and a Labour candidate . |
| 7 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 8 | He was elected to the Seven and Five Society in 1926 , being proposed by Winifred and seconded by Ben Nicholson [ qq.v. ] , and he was close to Frances Hodgkins [ q.v. ] and Christopher Wood . |
| 9 | Can I just confirm with Mr Curtis that when he was talking about the thirty three hectares , he was talking about thirty three hectares in terms of in terms of a change of use |
| 10 | He was knighted in the 1978 New Year 's Honours List . |
| 11 | In recognition of his public work he was knighted in the 1911 New Year 's honours and in 1919 appointed CBE . |
| 12 | The killers apparently knew this and shot him while he was travelling between the two sites without a police escort . |
| 13 | When he was sunk by the 1926 miner 's strike and had to ‘ sell everything he had ’ , they came to the rescue again . |
| 14 | He was staring at the two men at the nearby table . |
| 15 | The next upset came when he was chosen for the 1948–9 tour of India but asked , as a professional , to be paid £250 ; the WICBC refused , Worrell declined to back down , and he did not go . |
| 16 | He was chosen for the 1928–29 tour of Australia , but rheumatism forced him to return home before he had played a match . |
| 17 | ‘ He ran the Mafia 's drug business in Britain for ten years until he was arrested in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 18 | Noel Darcy , 23 , of Coventry , had been out with friends when he was attacked by a three or four youths . |
| 19 | The Fiction adds a little to one 's understanding of what he was becoming in the eighteen months immediately before his courtship of Helen Noble . |