Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day before F 's death the prisoner who had attacked him was moved into a nearby cell , albeit under continual observation . |
| 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 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 4 | At the end of November 1990 he was placed by his mother in the voluntary care of the local authority and on 5 December 1990 he was moved to an open unit but which has an attached secure unit . |
| 5 | Liu Huaqing , a 76-year-old general and the new vice-chair of the CMC , was elected to represent the military , as the sole military member of the standing committee ; he was regarded as a political neutral , and was described by the Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 29 as a " no-nonsense professional " who would push for depoliticization and modernization of the military . |
| 6 | Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted . |
| 7 | In the House of Lords , as in the House of Commons , he was regarded as a leading authority on patent and trade-mark law . |
| 8 | He was regarded as a popular rival of , and possible replacement for , the Prime Minister and current ANAP leader , Yildirim Akbulut . |
| 9 | He badgered the State Department in an attempt to gain recognition but he was regarded as a tiresome person of no real importance by the bureaucrats in the Roosevelt administration . |
| 10 | He was regarded as the classic book lover . |
| 11 | He was regarded as the professional equivalent of Fred Perry but , as a professional , was never allowed to play for his country . |
| 12 | He was amused to discover that , despite two years in the merchant navy , he was regarded as an unspoiled youth by those who , like Minton , resented the de-naturalising effect of privilege and the public school system . |
| 13 | He was regarded as an independent , but increasingly he became Aung San 's adviser , supplying the inside knowledge of British forms of government and administration which Bogyoke lacked . |
| 14 | He was lumped in the same class as telly slob Rab C. Nesbitt in a survey out yesterday . |
| 15 | It was also on a bigger scale and , for the first time , he was to collaborate with a distinguished painter for the designs . |
| 16 | Police said he was shot by a standard issue SA80 rifle , one of the Army 's deadliest weapons . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But he was n't killed in action , he was shot by the British after being caught red handed spying FOR the Japanese . |
| 19 | A relative of the Sinn Fein councillor Alex Maskey , he was shot in an industrial estate at lunchtime . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All of these were places of the gods into which he was absorbed in a continuous journey of existence for as long as eternity might last . |
| 22 | Suddenly he was apprehended by an irate Scout master who took a dim view of being woken at such an hour . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Almost at midnight , he was disturbed by a terrific kick on the door . |
| 25 | All at once he was disturbed by a sudden silence . |
| 26 | But once again he was disturbed by a sudden silence . |
| 27 | Fry claims he was conceived during a drunken tryst between his mother and Twitty . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Failing to achieve this , he was licensed as a dissenting preacher in January 1754 , had a meeting-house built for him at Warburton in Cheshire , and on 9 November 1754 was ordained as an Independent minister . |
| 30 | However , Rudd appears to have gained the patronage of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , and he was compensated with a royal chaplaincy and prebends in the cathedrals of Durham ( 1550 ) and Winchester ( 1551 ) . |