Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not known how his interest in electricity developed , but in 1787 two papers by him were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . |
| 2 | For all his international notoriety , Harari is barely known in his native country , and the one photograph known to exist of him was reprinted on the front pages of newspapers yesterday accompanying the news of his arrest . |
| 3 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 4 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 5 | He was regarded as the classic book lover . |
| 6 | He was regarded as the professional equivalent of Fred Perry but , as a professional , was never allowed to play for his country . |
| 7 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
| 8 | But he was n't killed in action , he was shot by the British after being caught red handed spying FOR the Japanese . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 11 | He was plunged into the commercial side of the business , first as deputy regional sales manager for ICI 's Southern Region and later — in 1963 — as commercial director of the Plastics Division . |
| 12 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 13 | He was leaving on the early morning train for Zaragoza , then on to Barcelona . |
| 14 | He was leaving behind the other children , the only friends he had , and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world . |
| 15 | In 1710 he was visited by the noted German traveller Conrad von Uffenbach , who sought out the most eminent instrument makers in London . |
| 16 | Here , that same evening , he was visited by the Young King , who tried to explain and excuse what had happened . |
| 17 | Once the sign of Heaven was clear , there was then nothing disloyal in transferring allegiance to a new emperor , for he was blessed by the ancestral spirits of China . |
| 18 | He was released in 1900 and lived in Paris and London , where he met Trotsky , but he went to Switzerland where he was contacted by the German government and smuggled back into Russia , in 1917 , to lead the Bolshevik Revolution . |
| 19 | He so impressed the permanent secretary , Sir Donald Maitland , that he was invited to the key civil servants ' committees . |
| 20 | At the end of 1966 , he was invited by the Indian government to spend six weeks there , visiting universities , watching some of the West Indies tour matches , and receiving an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of the Punjab . |
| 21 | He was stopped by the urgent tone of Patrick 's voice . |
| 22 | He was leaning against the back door where he 'd slammed it — filthy , crumpled , and pale with hunger . |
| 23 | His problems came to a head in 1927 when he was instructed by the Chinese government to collect surtaxes on foreign trade to which the treaty powers had not agreed , although the charges had been approved in principal during the Peking tariff conference of 1925–6 . |
| 24 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 25 | He was troubled by the strange things the Rannoch eagles had said about the Wrath eagles being exterminated and wondered if his own capture had been part of that . |
| 26 | On the racecourse , in Portman Square , he was treated with the wary politeness reserved for outsiders . |
| 27 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 28 | Only three weeks ago Clough launched a scathing attack on the way he was treated at the European championship finals in Sweden this summer and voiced his disapproval at manager Taylor 's long-ball style . |
| 29 | He was treated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and later released . |
| 30 | By this he was referring to the chief justices and three judges of the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King 's Bench and the chief baron and three barons of the Court of Exchequer , being the three courts of common law . |