Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 3 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fans loved his skill , he was regarded as the wizard of dribble . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was regarded in the industry as the main driving force behind the acquisitions . |
| 10 | He was airlifted onto the mountain as molten lava threatened to swamp the village of Zaffarana . |
| 11 | He was shot through the forehead as they played with the gun . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was shot in the chest . |
| 15 | She says he was shot in the chest . |
| 16 | He was shot in the back . |
| 17 | Oral tradition affirms that the Camerons as well as the Stewarts of Appin were actively countenancing two , if not three , attempts on Glenure 's life on 14 May 1752 , the day on which he was shot in the back by a killer who escaped unrecognized . |
| 18 | The last poker hand dealt to Wild Bill Hickok , just before he was shot in the back by Jack McCall in Deadwood City , South Dakota . |
| 19 | Hundreds of people followed the cortege of Mr Peacock , a prison officer , from his Joanmount Park home where he was shot in the back to the Holy Trinity Parish Church on the Oldpark Road , in north Belfast . |
| 20 | In the first wave of the attack he was shot in the head and thrown on top of me . |
| 21 | Navid Sadiq , 15 , died two days after he was shot in the head during the hold-up at his uncle Nasser Ali 's shop , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 22 | 10 year old Richard Hall playing with his brother , Clark at the spot near their Banbury home , where just 3 days ago he was shot in the head . |
| 23 | An inquest on Grant Mann has been told that he was shot in the head at close range . |
| 24 | He was shot in the heart five years ago . |
| 25 | Mr Thompson , sen , had been receiving sickness and invalidity benefit — about £93 a week — for the effects of a 1988 gunshot wound to his side after he was shot in the street as he walked home . |
| 26 | In 1918 he was shot in the knee while on a bombing raid and spent some time in hospital before being awarded an army scholarship , which enabled him to complete his studies at the City and Guilds College , London . |
| 27 | Riding with his wife in an open car through Dallas , he was shot in the neck and head by an assassin . |
| 28 | He was absorbed in the business of picking horses , from which he did modestly well . |
| 29 | Earlier this month , he was censured by the BAF council over moves to oust the chief executive , Malcolm Jones . |
| 30 | He was buoyed by the knowledge that at last they had a clear suspect . |