Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For thanks once more to his Wagnerian experienced he was beginning to formulate a new interpretation of art , art as a whole , and , in accordance with the given pragmatic logic , a new interpretation of the " Hellenic sphere " as well : a view of Greece and Greek art in direct opposition to the traditional view of which Winckelmann was a prime source . |
| 2 | In fact , as we shall see in Chapter 3 , he was beginning to evolve a new kind of conservative philosophy , and this was in no sense a time-serving decision , so that when Coleridge returned to ‘ orthodox ’ religion , his interpretation of Christian doctrine was strikingly original . |
| 3 | Yo was left of centre but not militant ; in the dying moments of the Japanese administration he was invited to form a transitional administration and agreed to do so , on the basis of the release of political prisoners and of no interference with the organisation of workers , peasants , students and youths . |
| 4 | In 1927 he was invited to edit an important collection of Boswell 's papers which had been bought by the American Colonel R. H. Isham . |
| 5 | He was bound to have a sumptuous place . |
| 6 | After one year he was asked to open a new office in Hull which was , he says , ‘ a great challenge and very exciting ’ , and two years later , in 1990 , he moved to London as a local director responsible for one of the investment teams in Greater London . |
| 7 | Soon afterwards he was asked to assess a new process , the production of caustic soda and chlorine by the electrolysis of brine . |
| 8 | He was engaged to plan a new town in Big Beaver Creek , Pennsylvania , which he called New Brighton . |
| 9 | Then he was called to treat a fellow doctor after a mugging . |
| 10 | Dr. Briant says he was born to have a nice way with him . ’ |
| 11 | By recording the numbers of plants belonging to different categories in successive generations , he was led to formulate an atomic theory of heredity . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , Jack Canary was killed during the process after the BT–13 he was ferrying suffered an in-flight fire . |
| 13 | He was believed to sleep a good deal and to groan occasionally . |
| 14 | He said he was hoping to find a young gentleman who would put money into his business , and seemed very interested in my opinion . |
| 15 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 16 | This special extra energy can be shown to have an antigravitational effect : it would have acted just like the cosmological constant that Einstein introduced into general relativity when he was trying to construct a static model of the universe . |
| 17 | A good example of this was Einstein , who called the cosmological constant , which he introduced when he was trying to make a static model of the universe , the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 18 | If they were on a joint engagement and he was trying to make an important speech , he found it irksome that the following day the papers were more exercised with the length of her hemline than his words . |
| 19 | His next letter accused Wolfgang of ‘ fecklessness , thoughtlessness and laziness ’ , which his son was quick to rebut , pointing out that he was trying to obtain a permanent post at Mannheim . |
| 20 | He wrinkled his nose , half closed his eyes , and then he surveyed Alexei as if he was trying to understand a bad joke . |
| 21 | Before his release he was made to sign a written undertaking that he would not use religious groups for political ends . |
| 22 | Although Wesker expresses the utmost admiration for Shakespeare , he was determined to write an original work which would change people 's perception and create a new Shylock . |
| 23 | He became a pupil in London of John Nash [ q.v. ] , and it was presumably through Nash 's connection with south Wales that in 1801 he was employed to design a small public building in Carmarthen . |
| 24 | The system of government to which he was elected had an interesting structure and development . |
| 25 | He was sentenced to pay a large fine , and to surrender his office to trustees ( one of whom was his own brother-in-law ) , although the intricacies of the case were not settled until at least 1636 . |
| 26 | She knew it sounded unconvincing and she could read the continued disbelief in his eyes even as she spoke , but it was n't right , the way he was managing to give a nasty twist to everything she said . |
| 27 | The deposed king had announced his decision to return at the end of May , when he committed himself to promoting democracy and announced that he was planning to sponsor an interim multiparty government of national consensus which would include members of the military . |
| 28 | Completely out of character at times , he was known to throw a verbal dart , in the shape of a pungent remark , and shatter one 's ego . |
| 29 | When Galileo compared the rate of fall of different materials he was attempting to answer a fundamental question : he wanted to know whether the gravitational attraction on different materials was the same . |
| 30 | Mr Chihana , the secretary-general of the influential Southern Africa Trade Union Co-ordination Council , who flew from Johannesburg to Lilongwe , Malawi 's capital , was detained while he was attempting to read a prepared statement after he descended the steps of a South African Airways flight . |