Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that he was not going to be happy if he were deprived of the chance to study . |
| 2 | ‘ So if he were poisoned by the entrée , he did n't display any symptoms for over an hour . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal was satisfied that the following matters were among those to which attention should be paid : 1 The nature of the employment Employment in a capacity where " confidential " material is habitually handled may impose a high obligation of confidentiality because the employee can be expected to realise its sensitive nature to a greater extent than if he were employed in a capacity where such material reaches him only occasionally or incidentally . |
| 4 | Burrs of hair were scattered on his scalp ; they were the same muted colour as his skin , as though he were compounded of the dust he played in . |
| 5 | She tried to see if he were concealed among the group hanging around near the circolo , but without lifting her eyes to scan them like a strumpet . |
| 6 | Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day . |
| 7 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 8 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 9 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 10 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |
| 11 | I think he was regarded as a bit of a failure in Ukrainian circles because I did n't speak the language or dance . ’ |
| 12 | Although early in his career he was regarded as a protege of Forbes he was largely uninfluenced by the so-called ‘ new realism ’ of the Newlyn school … |
| 13 | He was regarded as a traitor . |
| 14 | Fans loved his skill , he was regarded as the wizard of dribble . |
| 15 | He was regarded as the architect of the PLO 's security and counterintelligence apparatus and was frequently assumed to have presided over the creation of the Black September organization , which was active from 1971-73 and whose actions included the attack at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 . |
| 16 | He was regarded as the patron of herdsmen and their flocks , and , as the father of ROMULUS AND REMUS , was the honorary patron of Rome . |
| 17 | The outbreak of war in 1914 meant that he was regarded as an alien in Britain , though he was soon allowed to move to Rome , where he joined the senate . |
| 18 | One of the parliamentary commissioners who escorted the king to Holdenby , he was regarded as an enemy by the army council . |
| 19 | He was regarded in the industry as the main driving force behind the acquisitions . |
| 20 | He was airlifted onto the mountain as molten lava threatened to swamp the village of Zaffarana . |
| 21 | He was shot through the forehead as they played with the gun . |
| 22 | Tony Allis , from Middleyard near Stroud in Gloucestershire , was moving a disputed fence in woodland behind his home when he was shot by a neighbour . |
| 23 | Tony Allis , from Middleyard near Stroud in Gloucestershire , was moving a disputed fence in woodland behind his home when he was shot by a neighbour . |
| 24 | As a well-known republican who had twice taken arms against Britain he could not expect clemency , and he was shot by a firing squad in Kilmainham gaol 5 May 1916 . |
| 25 | ‘ The American killed last week in Athens , Agency man , looks like he was shot by a Brit . ’ |
| 26 | TEN-year-old George Greenshields had a lucky escape when he was shot by an airgun sniper . |
| 27 | He says he was shot in a gun battle with Iraqi troops but escaped to Saudi Arabia . |
| 28 | He was shot in the thigh while trying to avoid arrest at the Danish frontier in May 1945 , and tried for treason in London in September . |
| 29 | Mr Jacks , 23 , whose parents live in Welshpool , bled to death after he was shot in the thigh when three masked men burst into his flat in Putney , south-west London , on June 5 . |
| 30 | He was shot in the chest . |