Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E was shot in the chest . |
| 2 | That left an embarrassed home goalkeeper Ogrizovic to explain how all 6ft 4in of him was beaten by a chip by Arsenal 's substitue from 20 yards and from a daunting angle . |
| 3 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 4 | And even now the closeness of him was acting like a drug on her tired senses , its effect heightened by a heady mixture of desire and fear . |
| 5 | Wyllie , who stood down as a candidate for the All Black job after a confidential letter from NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks criticising him was leaked to the press , returns to what he loves most , working with clubs to develop the skill and the knowledge of the average club player . |
| 6 | The defence against him was supervised by the Archbishop of York , and three holy banners of St Peter of York , St John of Beverley and St Wilfrid of Ripon were flown from a standard in a cart , giving the subsequent engagement near Northallerton the name of ‘ Battle of the Standard ’ . |
| 7 | I made a great bonfire of it and stood and watched it burn until every trace of him was wiped off the face of the earth . ’ |
| 8 | Until recently he must have lived at Horton in Ivinghoe , where he had £2 a year in land , for the entry there concerning him was cancelled with the gloss ‘ quia in Edlesboro non computetor ? ’ |
| 9 | The Bishop retired after he was cautioned by the police for the offences . |
| 10 | ‘ He was preaching on a street in Belfast . |
| 11 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |
| 12 | Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day . |
| 13 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 14 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 15 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 16 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |
| 17 | I think he was regarded as a bit of a failure in Ukrainian circles because I did n't speak the language or dance . ’ |
| 18 | Although early in his career he was regarded as a protege of Forbes he was largely uninfluenced by the so-called ‘ new realism ’ of the Newlyn school … |
| 19 | He was regarded as a traitor . |
| 20 | Fans loved his skill , he was regarded as the wizard of dribble . |
| 21 | He was regarded as the architect of the PLO 's security and counterintelligence apparatus and was frequently assumed to have presided over the creation of the Black September organization , which was active from 1971-73 and whose actions included the attack at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 . |
| 22 | He was regarded as the patron of herdsmen and their flocks , and , as the father of ROMULUS AND REMUS , was the honorary patron of Rome . |
| 23 | The outbreak of war in 1914 meant that he was regarded as an alien in Britain , though he was soon allowed to move to Rome , where he joined the senate . |
| 24 | One of the parliamentary commissioners who escorted the king to Holdenby , he was regarded as an enemy by the army council . |
| 25 | He was regarded in the industry as the main driving force behind the acquisitions . |
| 26 | A vicious circle had been created : the more pressure the Americans exerted on Castro , the more inclined he was to move into the arms of the Russians . |
| 27 | He was burrowing in a briefcase while he waited . |
| 28 | He was airlifted onto the mountain as molten lava threatened to swamp the village of Zaffarana . |
| 29 | When Dorothy came home from town , however , he was digging over the vegetable patch , despite its half-frozen state and the gently falling snow . |
| 30 | He was shot through the forehead as they played with the gun . |