Example sentences of "he was [adv] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever political positions he was later driven into by a jealous Hollywood , Chaplin as a film-maker was never a propagandist or a preacher . |
| 2 | After the break Smith proved the menacing player for Stockton but he was well dealt with by a hard working Stockton defence . |
| 3 | He was frequently referred to on radio and television , and in the papers , as the first person to have been given an artificial heart . |
| 4 | He was presumably known to at least some of his fellow members — who themselves became foundation members of the Veterinary College — in particular the Duke of Northumberland , first president of the College ; Granville Penn , active in the establishment of the College , who became a member of the Society of Arts in 1788 and was in 1791 a steward ; the Earl of Morton ( one of Vial 's patrons ) ; Thomas Pitt FSA , subsequently to be one of the most assiduous attenders of meetings of the College governors , and last , but not least , Arthur Young , a member of the Society of Arts since 1769 . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , such unselfish acts by a runner whose ability commands respect , have made Zarei one of the most popular figures in ultra running , and he was recently referred to by one of his rivals as ‘ Gentleman James ’ . |
| 6 | For some reason he was always referred to as " The Threarah " — perhaps because there happened to be only one threar , or rowan , near the warren , from which he took his name . |
| 7 | He was much sought after as an expert witness in arbitrations and parliamentary inquiries , where his engineering expertise and powers of logical exposition carried much weight . |
| 8 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 9 | Although not all newspapers were affected to the same degree , the trend towards more ‘ sensation ’ and more ‘ sport ’ suggested that the ‘ reader was expected to be intellectually more passive … attracted less by the prospect of greater wisdom than by that of ‘ Elevated ’ status , and he was now appealed to in a shrill capitalised format ’ . |
| 10 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |