Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His swollen upper lip felt enormous and stiff , as though he were recovering from a dental injection . |
| 2 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 3 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 4 | He felt half excited , half afraid , as though he were delving into a hidden world ; a world which preferred to remain undiscovered ; which might go to any lengths to protect its secrets . |
| 5 | He affirms once again his belief that " our period is one of decline " but then mutters his exequies in a curiously dispassionate manner , as if he were engaged in an intellectual exercise of no particular consequence . |
| 6 | And now Martha and he were united in a strange fellow feeling , which neither of them had expected , and which they had to shake off with difficulty . |
| 7 | He felt as if he were pressing against a strong , polarised magnetic force . |
| 8 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 9 | At the end of November 1990 he was placed by his mother in the voluntary care of the local authority and on 5 December 1990 he was moved to an open unit but which has an attached secure unit . |
| 10 | Liu Huaqing , a 76-year-old general and the new vice-chair of the CMC , was elected to represent the military , as the sole military member of the standing committee ; he was regarded as a political neutral , and was described by the Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 29 as a " no-nonsense professional " who would push for depoliticization and modernization of the military . |
| 11 | Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted . |
| 12 | In the House of Lords , as in the House of Commons , he was regarded as a leading authority on patent and trade-mark law . |
| 13 | He was regarded as a popular rival of , and possible replacement for , the Prime Minister and current ANAP leader , Yildirim Akbulut . |
| 14 | He badgered the State Department in an attempt to gain recognition but he was regarded as a tiresome person of no real importance by the bureaucrats in the Roosevelt administration . |
| 15 | He was regarded as the classic book lover . |
| 16 | He was regarded as the professional equivalent of Fred Perry but , as a professional , was never allowed to play for his country . |
| 17 | He was amused to discover that , despite two years in the merchant navy , he was regarded as an unspoiled youth by those who , like Minton , resented the de-naturalising effect of privilege and the public school system . |
| 18 | He was regarded as an independent , but increasingly he became Aung San 's adviser , supplying the inside knowledge of British forms of government and administration which Bogyoke lacked . |
| 19 | It was also on a bigger scale and , for the first time , he was to collaborate with a distinguished painter for the designs . |
| 20 | Police said he was shot by a standard issue SA80 rifle , one of the Army 's deadliest weapons . |
| 21 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
| 22 | But he was n't killed in action , he was shot by the British after being caught red handed spying FOR the Japanese . |
| 23 | A relative of the Sinn Fein councillor Alex Maskey , he was shot in an industrial estate at lunchtime . |
| 24 | The plaintiff went to work in a new job after the accident and while at work he was shot in the left leg during an armed robbery . |
| 25 | All of these were places of the gods into which he was absorbed in a continuous journey of existence for as long as eternity might last . |
| 26 | Suddenly he was apprehended by an irate Scout master who took a dim view of being woken at such an hour . |
| 27 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 28 | Almost at midnight , he was disturbed by a terrific kick on the door . |
| 29 | All at once he was disturbed by a sudden silence . |
| 30 | But once again he was disturbed by a sudden silence . |