Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 2 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 3 | It was as if he were shitting out of every pore . ’ |
| 4 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |
| 5 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 6 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 7 | He was moved on to the job when we were short-handed last winter , and up-graded from labourer . ’ |
| 8 | On Christmas Day he was moved out by a policeman , and that , he said , was when he lost his faith . |
| 9 | Shortly after joining No 10 Squadron he was shot down during an attack on the Tirpitz at Aasfjord near Trondheim in Norway . |
| 10 | He was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter . ’ |
| 11 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 12 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 13 | Pearce and Duvall were blurred figures beside the wreck , distinguishable only in that Duvall was carrying the paraffin containers , which he was setting down on the pavement . |
| 14 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 15 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 16 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 17 | He was leaning out of the shelter . |
| 18 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 19 | However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department . |
| 20 | He was turned down by the " Goldsmith Libel Fund " , an eccentric exercise in philanthropy which bankrolls plaintiffs of conservative persuasion ( notably Tory MPs ) who bring libel actions against media organisations perceived as left-wing ( eg the BBC ) . |
| 21 | Having earned a rest , he was turned out in a paddock where he had grazed regularly . |
| 22 | But it was n't the camp reactions he was troubled about at the moment , it was Mrs Robson 's . |
| 23 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 24 | Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the 10th round , he was ruled out for a foul , and lost his world championship . |
| 27 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 28 | At the storming of this fortress on 19 January he was blown up at the head of his brigade when a French magazine exploded , killing 108 men . |
| 29 | He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal . |
| 30 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |