Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion . |
| 2 | He was referring to the well known local character whose unenviable job as council dustman , included emptying the local toilet buckets , as there was no running water in the area The local joke was that Terry had no problem getting a drink . |
| 3 | Certainly when Johnnie Armstrong arrived for his meeting with the king he was arrayed in the most ostentatious items from his wardrobe . |
| 4 | In 1864 he was transferred to the newly built Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire . |
| 5 | Cagney was an authentic city man with impeccable East-Side Manhattan credentials ; he was born on the lower East Side but raised in Yorkville and he was fully conversant with the Irish , Italian , German , Scandinavian , and Jewish idioms of his native city but he was also a professional entertainer who graduated through vaudeville and song-and-dance routines to being a hard-boiled actor . |
| 6 | At the local cathedral grammar school he was exposed to the distinctly Protestant influence of the masters Anthony Rush [ q.v. ] and John Gresshop , and he proceeded to Oxford . |
| 7 | In 1907 he was appointed to the newly established lectureship of physiology and experimental psychology and made director of the university 's new psychology laboratory , the first of its kind in Great Britain . |
| 8 | Two months later he was appointed to the recently built Selimiye ( Selim II ) medrese in Edirne , the newest and perhaps at least temporarily the most important of the imperial medreses , from which he nevertheless resigned after only two months , unwilling to accept , in Ata'i 's words , by which he means , presumably , the transfer to Edirne . |
| 9 | In 1984 he was elected to the very distinguished position of member of the Academie Francaise , bastion of French culture . |
| 10 | George I died in June 1727 , whilst on a visit to Hanover , and he was succeeded by the more cultured George II , whose wife was Caroline of Anspach , and she fitted well into London . |
| 11 | Four years later , like so many of his generation , he was sucked into the tragically wasteful conflict of the First World War , serving — for reasons best known to himself — as a soldier in the Canadian Army . |
| 12 | He was admitted to the most lavishly decorated and furnished room he had ever been in . |
| 13 | He was sired by the very famous Int . |