Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was lumped in the same class as telly slob Rab C. Nesbitt in a survey out yesterday . |
| 2 | He was treated by the same experts who saved the life of TV star Leslie Crowther . |
| 3 | However , an Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman , when he was asked on the same day whether negotiations had been more constructive with regard to the long-standing Kashmir dispute , said only that " the talks should be viewed as a measured and gradual approach to stabilization of our relations " . |
| 4 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | He was followed in the same debate by a junior who informed the representative body that even if we did not vote for the juniors ' motion a solution would be imposed by the Department of Health in conjunction with the juniors whether we liked it or not . |
| 6 | Fifteen minutes later he was escorted by the same guard to a huge theatre-like room on the same floor . |
| 7 | THE Sunday Correspondent has received its first brace of libel writs , with one from Emma Samms over ‘ Fresh evidence widens Eagle Trust scandal ’ in the 1 October edition and another from Jonathan Maxwell Wylie Samuelson , who claims he was libelled in the same article and also in one headed ‘ Payments to Samuelson Jnr ’ in the 17 September issue . |
| 8 | He was born on the same day as Sarah but he 's an hour earlier . |
| 9 | ‘ He was born in the same town as me , ’ he says . |
| 10 | The passages that led to the main suite were stark and uncarpeted , the room he was led into the same . |
| 11 | He was clad in the same white coveralls as the half-dozen policemen who had been working over the room , like a coven of wraiths . |
| 12 | I should mention that Merlyn and I have been parliamentary colleagues and friends for nearly 20 years , since he was elected by the same people of south Leeds who had sent Hugh Gaitskell to the House of Commons . |
| 13 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
| 14 | He was attracted to the latter 's extravagant precepts on style , in contrast to Pater : ‘ What a small man Pater is . |
| 15 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 16 | He was taken to the same King 's Bench Prison in June 1810 to await his trial , not for debt but seditious libel in The Political Register . |
| 17 | and if Geoffrey chose to conciliate in aristocratic disputes over property , he was forced to the same resort on matters of crime ; even powerful princes refrained from tough measures against those supporters essential to their own position . |
| 18 | But it was not long before he was identified as the former Neath and Swansea star who switched codes in 1987 . |
| 19 | He was going in the same direction , empty . |