Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was regarded as the classic book lover . |
| 2 | He was regarded as the professional equivalent of Fred Perry but , as a professional , was never allowed to play for his country . |
| 3 | He was lumped in the same class as telly slob Rab C. Nesbitt in a survey out yesterday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he was n't killed in action , he was shot by the British after being caught red handed spying FOR the Japanese . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was plunged into the commercial side of the business , first as deputy regional sales manager for ICI 's Southern Region and later — in 1963 — as commercial director of the Plastics Division . |
| 8 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 9 | In 1710 he was visited by the noted German traveller Conrad von Uffenbach , who sought out the most eminent instrument makers in London . |
| 10 | Here , that same evening , he was visited by the Young King , who tried to explain and excuse what had happened . |
| 11 | Once the sign of Heaven was clear , there was then nothing disloyal in transferring allegiance to a new emperor , for he was blessed by the ancestral spirits of China . |
| 12 | He was released in 1900 and lived in Paris and London , where he met Trotsky , but he went to Switzerland where he was contacted by the German government and smuggled back into Russia , in 1917 , to lead the Bolshevik Revolution . |
| 13 | He so impressed the permanent secretary , Sir Donald Maitland , that he was invited to the key civil servants ' committees . |
| 14 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 15 | At the end of 1966 , he was invited by the Indian government to spend six weeks there , visiting universities , watching some of the West Indies tour matches , and receiving an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of the Punjab . |
| 16 | He was stopped by the urgent tone of Patrick 's voice . |
| 17 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 18 | After winning his first 13 fights , Ferguson 's career slump started when he was stopped in the 10th round by former contender Carl Williams in August 1985 . |
| 19 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 20 | He conceded 12lb and paid the penalty when he was stopped in the third round . |
| 21 | His problems came to a head in 1927 when he was instructed by the Chinese government to collect surtaxes on foreign trade to which the treaty powers had not agreed , although the charges had been approved in principal during the Peking tariff conference of 1925–6 . |
| 22 | What set Sadler apart from his contemporaries and rivals in Britain and France , was that he was acknowledged as the first to consciously apply science , to aerostation . |
| 23 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |
| 24 | ‘ He was killed in the last war , before I was born . |
| 25 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 26 | He was troubled by the strange things the Rannoch eagles had said about the Wrath eagles being exterminated and wondered if his own capture had been part of that . |
| 27 | During his stay in Istanbul he was treated with the greatest respect by his former students , among whom are mentioned three important muderrises of the city , two from the Sahn and one from the Murad Pasa medrese . |
| 28 | On the racecourse , in Portman Square , he was treated with the wary politeness reserved for outsiders . |
| 29 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 30 | Only three weeks ago Clough launched a scathing attack on the way he was treated at the European championship finals in Sweden this summer and voiced his disapproval at manager Taylor 's long-ball style . |