Example sentences of "he was [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having earned a rest , he was turned out in a paddock where he had grazed regularly . |
| 2 | Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat . |
| 3 | He swivelled from joist to joist , raker to rafter , feeling horribly like a monkey and getting very cold feet in the process even though he was breaking out in a sweat at the same time . |
| 4 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 5 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 6 | He seemed to regard the New Testament as a stormy sea in which he was tossed about in a little boat as he explored . |
| 7 | He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute . |
| 8 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 9 | He was b he was born up in the mountains |
| 10 | He was swallowed up in the fog . |
| 11 | Quite how he was supposed to stand up for himself when he was tied up in a wicker laundry basket which had been left under a running shower was another matter . |
| 12 | He was tied up in the garden but was put in a pen at night . |
| 13 | It would give him pleasure to make jokes that were n't funny while he was dressed up in the wedding-dress of a woman he claimed had been murdered also . |
| 14 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 15 | He was thrown about in the back of the car and the driver was having a Chinese attack of the wobblies made worse by bouts of dizziness and sickness due to the height at which they were travelling . |
| 16 | The telephonist at the other end was cheery and casual , and he was put through in no time to someone called Cyril Causeley , who , the girl said , was editor for the Walter Machin books . |
| 17 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 18 | He was put down in the spare bedroom with the blinds closed against the sun , and Jim sat with him telling him stories until he fell asleep . |
| 19 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 20 | Ronnie , 54 , hit the headlines when he thumped the mayor in the face after his civic car ran over Christmas lights he was stringing up in the centre of Frome , Somerset . |
| 21 | Clarissa said she was glad she had n't known he was walking about in the open . |
| 22 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 23 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |
| 25 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 26 | Although he admits there were ‘ times it felt like farce — chasing a guy through the woods who was chasing the ghost of his dead father ’ , Bradley nevertheless says there were moments when he was caught up in the atmosphere . |
| 27 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 28 | And just yesterday he was spotted in in the Northampton area . |
| 29 | He was knocked out in a brawl at a Hollywood restaurant , suffering a broken jaw and three shattered teeth . |
| 30 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |