Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Chapman drove at 50 to 60mph before he was stopped by a police patrol car . |
2 | He thereafter committed a large number of summary offences and two either way offences , of which he was convicted by a magistrates ' court . |
3 | Once shortly after he was arrested and over the weekend when he was examined by a police surgeon . ’ |
4 | He was sent in a cattle truck through the Brenner Pass to Austria where food was so short that he exchanged a piano accordion ( the Fawcetts , it seems , were always able to find the means to make music ) for two loaves of bread baked from chestnuts . |
5 | He was caught by a police radar in Lydney . |
6 | Guo Weichang had stabbed 20 women on Shanghai buses before he was seized by a police chief on the same bus as the 21st . |
7 | Before leaving school , he was interviewed by a careers officer who asked him : ‘ Do you want a job in a factory ? ’ |