Example sentences of "he was [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At his trial at the end of January 1990 , Postelnicu blubbed out his guilt in connection with the shootings in Timişoara and the incineration of the forty victims there , but he was anxious to defend himself from charges of cupidity . |
| 2 | Like many players of that era , Jack 's footballing career was badly restricted by the war , but he was available to help us to our regional championship of the 3rd Division South in the first half of 1945–46 while , upon the resumption of League Football in 1946–47 , he shone as a half-back of real quality in a none too great Palace team and his performances quickly drew attention from several 1st Division sides . |
| 3 | ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’ |
| 4 | He was helpless to defend himself against the terrible gleaming weapon in the fist of the menacing black figure looming over him . |
| 5 | The knowledge that he was helpless to do anything about the forthcoming wedding made things no easier for Seb , and proof that the end of the gipsies ’ way of life in Wychwood was near at hand . |
| 6 | Experimental surgery on his legs when he was 10 left him in a wheelchair , yet in 1988 he climbed Kala Patar in the Himalayas over 18,000 feet in the shade of Everest . |
| 7 | In the early stages he was content to keep her towards the rear of the field as Teleprompter — also attempting a mile and a half for the first time — took his accustomed role of front-runner . |
| 8 | He thought there was trouble ahead , but he was disinclined to do anything about it before he had to . |
| 9 | Like most Birkbeck students , he was obliged to support himself by working at a job of some kind . |
| 10 | Now and then he was obliged to curb it in order to give a chance to the bluebells and the wood anemones , which were both getting sparse to the point of extinction . |
| 11 | He was silly to tell me about the date over the door . |
| 12 | Some years before , he had founded in his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon a chapel in honour of St Thomas Becket and he was inclined to see himself in that tradition of defiance of the crown . |
| 13 | Describing himself as ‘ a retired fiddler ’ , he was reluctant to say which of the many festival events would be highlights for him , but could hardly deny , that one will certainly be a performance by his former pupil , Claire Roff , now 18 , who began playing the violin when she was only four . |
| 14 | When Wharton had to relinquish his seat in Buckinghamshire on his elevation to the peerage in 1696 , he was unable to replace himself with a suitable man , and the by-election went in favour of a local Tory , Lord Cheyne . |
| 15 | His deafness debarred him from lectures , and he was unable to avail himself of the help of tutors , but he persevered and he graduated in 1911 , overnight becoming front-page news as the only deaf man ( then ) to achieve the academic distinction of Master of Arts of Cambridge University . |
| 16 | On admission he was unable to swallow anything but liquids and mashed solids . |
| 17 | His hands trembled so violently that he was unable to bring it to his lips . |
| 18 | He was prepared to swear it on the Book . |
| 19 | From the presence of enlarged joints and marine gastropods on these shelves , he was prepared to attribute them to marine action since the sea has stood at its present level . |
| 20 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 21 | She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head . |
| 22 | ‘ He was supposed to meet us by himself . |
| 23 | If Coleman was willing , he was ready to second him to Hurley to protect the security of DIA 's mission in the Middle East . |
| 24 | I think he was frightened to give it for fear of hurting me . ’ |
| 25 | Everything that had been lost he was able to restore it to Ruth . |
| 26 | Joseph saw that although he was given evil he was able to turn it into goodness . |
| 27 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 28 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 29 | Soon he was able to devote himself to it full time . |
| 30 | I mean , he was able to put himself among the duped . |