Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NICHOLAS KEPT TELLING himself that he had never before done this — as if he were somehow engaged in research and thereby exonerated . |
| 2 | There was a long silence , as if he were so fixed in despair he could n't speak . |
| 3 | The quoted comments of the NCO are too short to indicate whether he might in fact justify his comments in this way , if he were personally accused of prejudice . |
| 4 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 5 | It was a time when he was immensely drawn to panache , and he felt done with the prim and the hangdog for good . |
| 6 | When he was finally slain in battle , he asked that his severed head be buried facing the ocean so that no foreign armies could set foot in Ireland without him knowing it . |
| 7 | By now , having experienced the sensation of flying , he felt that his future was in flying the aircraft rather than servicing them on the ground ; in April 1934 he was finally accepted for pilot training . |
| 8 | He was finally accepted for treatment about eighteen months after his accident . |
| 9 | In January 1979 when he was finally released from hospital he and Raine booked into the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane for an expensive month-long convalescence . |
| 10 | He was finally released from prison two years later on payment of a £500 fine to Edward . |
| 11 | He had eighteen previous convictions when he was finally arrested for murder , including assault and bodily harm , and three charges pending . |
| 12 | In a radio broadcast on 1 October 1936 , the day he was officially invested as Head of State , Franco hinted at how he envisaged the organization of the as yet non-existent state of whose equally non-existent government he had just been made leader . |
| 13 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
| 14 | Cowley picked up a photograph of a sombre looking man of about forty , his face registering all the discomfort he was probably feeling in wedding suit and stiff shirt . |
| 15 | He was powerfully addicted to conspiracy theory , according to which the group was continually under surveillance by the Special Branch and MI5 , while concentration camps were being prepared to incarcerate the militants as the capitalist crisis deepend . |
| 16 | He was seemingly engrossed in conversation , although she could n't see with whom because of the milling crowd round the doorway . |
| 17 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 18 | He worked for several years at the British Rail Works in Swindon , where he was regularly exposed to asbestos . |
| 19 | Both leaders were each sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and three years ' civil rights deprivation ( although an appeal court ordered Sadiq 's release immediately before the April election and he was again elected to Parliament — see p. 37388 ) . |
| 20 | In August he was again complaining of tiredness ; there was no doubt that like most other Englishmen he was experiencing what he described in another context as a general weariness of war and desire for peace . |
| 21 | In April 1770 he was again arrested for debt , and this time wrote to an unknown friend : ‘ After being six times arrested : nine times in a spunging house ; and three times in the Fleet-prison , I am at least happily arrived at the King 's Bench [ Prison ] ’ . |
| 22 | Although his sister was now gravely ill he had to return to London but , on the voyage back , he was again afflicted with tachycardia and when the ship docked at Southampton he was rushed to hospital in London ; while recovering there , he learned that his sister had died . |
| 23 | Later , he was again accused of treason ; this time by the people of Arles and the Jews . |
| 24 | He knew full well that the only circumstances in which a regional planning manager would not be expected personally to present his Ten Year Business Plan to the President of the Corporation was if he was already earmarked for promotion and it was desired to give visibility to his successor , or if he was on his way out . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not going anywhere until I find out what happened , Joe , ’ she warned him , but he was already nodding in agreement . |
| 26 | By 1633 he was already moving in court circles . |
| 27 | He expected to be exhausted later in an investigation when he would be working a sixteen-hour day , but this early heaviness , the feeling that he was already spent in mind and body was new to him . |
| 28 | Christian accompanied him once to Ireland to watch a new filly run , took one look through the field-glasses , announced he was already dying of boredom , and departed to look at paintings . |
| 29 | But he was already attracted to Lutheranism . |
| 30 | I looked at him , surprised at his quick recovery , but then I saw he had n't really recovered , he was just pretending in order not to hurt me . |