Example sentences of "he was [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By sheer luck , Ron was able to breath in a tiny air-pocket formed by the rapids , until he was finally rescued by the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team , who risked their own lives to save him . |
| 2 | He was finally captured by the Russians in the vicious street fighting in Berlin in April 1945 . |
| 3 | Frightened by the collecting crowd , the man lashed out at several others until he was finally arrested by the police . |
| 4 | He was finally shown into the outer office . |
| 5 | He was controversially omitted from the second Test even when captain Graham Gooch went down ill just before the start of that game . |
| 6 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 7 | I always thought he was largely to blame for the relegation in 1982 . |
| 8 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |
| 9 | Van Der Meulen realised that change had to come but he was surely saddened by the way it happened . |
| 10 | He was particularly disturbed by the practice of detaining prisoners until their ‘ board and lodging ’ fees had been paid to the gaoler and wondered why a salary could not be paid to avoid the corruption inherent in the fee system . |
| 11 | He was particularly influenced by the work of Oscar Wilde and G. Bernard Shaw [ qq.v. ] , and the Shakespearian productions of Herbert Beerbohm Tree [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | He was particularly linked to the problems of football hooliganism and sparked a storm when he called English supporters deported from the Italian 1990 World Cup ‘ the effluent tendency ’ . |
| 13 | It was 5.06 when he was tapped on the shoulder and told that he was urgently needed on the phone . |
| 14 | He was officially appointed on the following day , and served as Master until Christmas 1644 . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Kay 's decision , for which he was officially reprimanded by the UN [ see p. 38451 ] , to send material from Baghdad to the United States State Department rather than to UN officials , was defended by Blix in Vienna on Oct. 4 on the grounds that " improvisation is necessary in some situations " . |
| 16 | In 1444 he was officially entrusted with the care , maintenance , and teaching of the eight chapel children : the creation of Plummer 's post probably reflects the growing use of treble voices in part-music as well as in plainchant . |
| 17 | He was instantly taken by the oozy Frenchness of her and the fact that she looked so much like himself . |
| 18 | At this point he was instantly revived by the appearance of a waitress bearing coffee , sandwiches , and a pint of beer . |
| 19 | Even on his worst ( silent ) days he was easily stirred by the song of a human or a bird , by the laugh of a woodpecker , the bark of a pheasant , the sight of a rare butterfly , or the bark of a fox in the darkness — with his easy and melodious way of putting over his knowledge … |
| 20 | He was completely dumbfounded by the whole incident and could not understand why the rocks had fallen on his cottage . |
| 21 | He was quite at home talking about Eisenstein or Brecht , Shakespeare or Godard , but at the same time he was completely rooted in the specificity of Bengal , its history , its literature and its culture . |
| 22 | On Nov. 12 he was effectively dethroned with the election of his eldest son as King Letsie III by an assembly of chiefs [ see p. 37843 ] . |
| 23 | There he was forcibly reminded of the humiliation of his situation . |
| 24 | According to Stanley Turner , curator of the Michael Peto archive at Dundee University , ‘ he was continuously searching for the vision of a monumental human form to epitomise the universality of whatever scene , situation or event he was out to capture … always intent on raising his workday subjects from fleeting , mundane , accidental movement into symbolic representatives of their class or profession . ’ |
| 25 | He was probably connected to the London commercial and financial dynasty , perhaps through Sir Richard Gresham [ q.v. ] , who had acquired extensive monastic properties in Yorkshire at the dissolution . |
| 26 | He was probably apprenticed to the east coast coal trade . |
| 27 | He was smilingly recognized at the reception desk , but his credentials were still carefully scrutinized and he was required to await the escorting messenger , even though he had attended enough meetings in the building to be reasonably familiar with these particular corridors of power . |
| 28 | But during a drop in 1984 , his parachute failed to open , and he was partially paralysed by the fall . |
| 29 | In subsequently adopting the life of a travelling scholar , he was doubtless influenced by the academic study of Greece being undertaken around 1800 by a remarkable group of Cambridge scholars . |
| 30 | And when , on occasion , his name did creep into a scandal-sheet or a confessional biography , he was invariably painted as the patron saint of lost souls . |