Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 2 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 3 | He was moved on to the job when we were short-handed last winter , and up-graded from labourer . ’ |
| 4 | On Christmas Day he was moved out by a policeman , and that , he said , was when he lost his faith . |
| 5 | Shortly after joining No 10 Squadron he was shot down during an attack on the Tirpitz at Aasfjord near Trondheim in Norway . |
| 6 | He was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter . ’ |
| 7 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 8 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 9 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 10 | However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department . |
| 11 | He was turned down by the " Goldsmith Libel Fund " , an eccentric exercise in philanthropy which bankrolls plaintiffs of conservative persuasion ( notably Tory MPs ) who bring libel actions against media organisations perceived as left-wing ( eg the BBC ) . |
| 12 | Having earned a rest , he was turned out in a paddock where he had grazed regularly . |
| 13 | But it was n't the camp reactions he was troubled about at the moment , it was Mrs Robson 's . |
| 14 | In the 10th round , he was ruled out for a foul , and lost his world championship . |
| 15 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 16 | At the storming of this fortress on 19 January he was blown up at the head of his brigade when a French magazine exploded , killing 108 men . |
| 17 | He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal . |
| 18 | Look at Ben Hogan , a legend and a perfectionist who gave up the game when he was struck down by the dreaded ‘ yips ’ . |
| 19 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 20 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 21 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 22 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 23 | He continued , ‘ That friend of yours , the Scotsman , Duncan something or other , he was called out during the night to deliver something to 45 Royal Marine Commando . |
| 24 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 25 | He was called out by an offended patriot of the town , but killed his opponent in the consequent duel , one of the few duels that can ever have been fought for the sake of a marginal note in a book . |
| 26 | He seemed to regard the New Testament as a stormy sea in which he was tossed about in a little boat as he explored . |
| 27 | Almost immediately after birth he was sent out to a wet-nurse at the nearby village of Syderstone , where he remained until he was weaned , at about 18 months . |
| 28 | He was sent back to the front only twenty-one days after Lieutenant Makepeace had leapt up and shouted , ‘ Follow me . ’ |
| 29 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 30 | It came as no surprise when he was sent off for a vicious headbutt to the hapless Hudd . |