Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting his left arm round Donald 's shoulder , he took advantage of his first relaxation from the spasm of pain , to raise the glass to his lips , push his head back and , as if he were administering medicine to Maisie , roll the fluid past the perfectly kept teeth . |
| 2 | He was delivering milk to houses in Cheltenham in the early hours of this morning , when 2 men pounced on him , demanding cash . |
| 3 | Adrian Stayte 's eyelids were stuck together when two men pounced on him as he was delivering milk in Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 4 | He had reached the top : he was standing on a rock , he was brandishing his chainsword , he was roaring defiance at enemies Defries could n't see . |
| 5 | The next year he was buying property in Enfield , Middlesex , but seems to have fallen victim to the Black Death on 3 June 1349 . |
| 6 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 7 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 8 | On the one hand he was receiving advice from Cardinal Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ) that he should steer clear of theological issues ; on the other he was advised that Cardinal Bellarmine would welcome his comments on a passage in Psalm 18 that appeared inconsistent with Copernican doctrine . |
| 9 | Not two years later , he was dealing smack in Ballymun where he met Isabelle at an unlikely pub near a client 's flat . |
| 10 | He was given benzylpenicillin with cefotaxime and transferred to the intensive care unit , where he subsequently made an uncomplicated recovery . |
| 11 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 12 | In 1938 he was given command of Mercury , the top ( seaplane ) half of the Mayo composite , the lower carrier element being the Maia flying boat . |
| 13 | In the end he was given office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 14 | He was granted bail by magistrates on his committal for trial . |
| 15 | When he was proclaimed King in February , there was popular rejoicing throughout the realm . |
| 16 | Palestinian nationalists became suspicious , since there were soon rumours that he was seeking recognition as Amir of Palestine in return for support of Zionist policy . |
| 17 | William 's was the last successful invasion of the British Isles and he was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day , 1066 , aged 39 . |
| 18 | Now that he was crowned King of Scots , he was to pay homage for his kingdom to the English monarch as Lord Paramount . |
| 19 | A period in the engineering department saw him promoted from senior mechanical engineer to head of mechanical engineering before he was appointed head of facilities for BP 's northern district which included the Buchan , Beatrice , SWOPS , Clyde , Thistle and Magnus upstream activities . |
| 20 | Woods worked directly under Michael Balcon when he was appointed head of production in 1947 and was responsible for employing Ardizzone , Bawden , Barnett Freedman , Peake , Minton , Piper , Searle and others , to produce posters and other advertising material . |
| 21 | And I remember one , a Yorkshireman he was appointed yardmaster of Portobello Yard , and where I worked . |
| 22 | He was appointed lecturer at St Bartholomew 's Hospital in 1863 , succeeded Michael Faraday [ q.v. ] as Fullerian professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution five years later , and in 1872 became Waynflete professor of chemistry at Oxford ( where he became a fellow of Worcester College ) , retiring in 1912 . |
| 23 | In 1890 the first edition of his Manual of Hygiene and Public Health appeared , and in 1891 he was appointed lecturer on hygiene and public health at Charing Cross Hospital medical school . |
| 24 | In May 1841 he was appointed lecturer in physiology at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School . |
| 25 | In November of the same year he was appointed chaplain to Newgate prison , where he wrote a large number of Ordinary 's Account s of funeral sermons , confessions , and last dying words of criminals executed at Tyburn . |
| 26 | He was appointed chairman of Waterford Wedgwood U.K. plc on 19 June 1991 . |
| 27 | And it should be remembered that despite a tremendous volume of criticism that heralded the Bennett appointment as the Commandant of Pathfinder Force , it was but a murmur compared with that when he was appointed AOC of No 8 ( PFF ) Group at the tender age of 31 . |
| 28 | He was appointed Keeper of Bécherel in 1368 and of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in 1370 . |
| 29 | By 1529 he was a knight of the Body to Henry VIII ; he was appointed marshal of Berwick on Tweed in the same year and was made constable or keeper of the border castle of Bewcastle in 1531 . |
| 30 | In April 1372 he was appointed Lieutenant in Aquitaine and assembled a fleet to take money and reinforcements to the garrisons there , which were hard pressed by the French . |