Example sentences of "and he was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fella 's name was a Corporal and he was killed in a train wreck at Ipswich while he was going on leave going to London . |
| 2 | His force was ambushed a little short of its objective and he was killed by the French and their Indian allies . |
| 3 | Orchard had been granted a rent for his ‘ good and praiseworthy service and counsel ’ in 1475 , and he was engaged as a contractor for several parts of the college buildings , including the great west window of the chapel to his own ‘ portraiture ’ ( design ) . |
| 4 | As the world knows , Roth grew up in Newark , New Jersey , a second-generation American Jew , and he was to turn into a citizen of the world , a famous cosmopolitan author . |
| 5 | The wild bohemianism of the life at Kisling 's was stimulating and hectic but a drain on Modigliani 's limited energy and he was looking for a change in his life . |
| 6 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |
| 7 | And then his mind cleared , and he was looking at the Robemaker and feeling contempt for him again , feeling as well , the dangerous , powerful white spears of the Stroicim Inchinn withdraw , so that he knew the Robemaker had again called up the Stroicim without giving any outward indication of having done so . |
| 8 | I came out of church one day , to do some visiting , from the over sixties , and there was a boy with a a great chunk of rock in his hand , and he was looking at the window . |
| 9 | ‘ Just what 're you getting at , young Angel ? ’ he asked , narrowing his eyes the same way he did when he had a cigarette going and he was looking in a petrol tank . |
| 10 | Acute self poisoning was suspected , and he was transferred to the Princess Alexandra Hospital . |
| 11 | And he was tormented by the idea , by the conviction , that he had missed something . |
| 12 | Although McMahon at first was an abrasive force in midfield , where United missed the steadying influence of the injured Robson , he began to lose possession — and control — in his first Manchester derby , and he was robbed of the ball by Sharpe and McClair . |
| 13 | The famous Swedish Don Giovanni , John Forsell , declared that the young Tauber was the greatest Ottavio he had ever heard , and he was noted for the intense conviction with which he declaimed to his Donna Anna ( in the German text then still generally in use , even at festivals ) the solemn oath , ‘ Ich schwöre ’ . |
| 14 | Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted . |
| 15 | McMahon works for Harvard 's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics , and he was consulted about the design of Harvard 's newest running track . |
| 16 | He was being sick right and he was hanging over the banisters like this these flats and I could n't stop laughing . |
| 17 | Of Turkey 's seven presidents to date , only one ( Mr Celal Bayar ) has been a civilian , and he was ousted by the army in 1960 . |
| 18 | I could tell he was angry because he was red in the face and his fists were clenched and he was swearing like a trooper . |
| 19 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 20 | So many refugees had panicked and he was lost in the throng . |
| 21 | The sea soon carried him away , and he was lost in the darkness . |
| 22 | His crew were in pairs , going on a house-to-house , and he was ticking off the cleared locations on his streetmap . |
| 23 | Alexander spoke such broad Scots that in London he was not understood , and he was sent to a private tutor until he was fifteen , then to University College School . |
| 24 | ‘ And he was drinking from the Easter one ? ’ |
| 25 | Hurley handed him a Turkish passport with a West German visa and he was escorted over the green line into Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus . |
| 26 | As a well-known republican who had twice taken arms against Britain he could not expect clemency , and he was shot by a firing squad in Kilmainham gaol 5 May 1916 . |
| 27 | Though neither of them mentioned it , she was obviously feeling much the same as he was and he was overcome by a longing to rush to her side , hold her , comfort her , whisper that everything would be fine . |
| 28 | That evening , in the hall , Mariot entertained them with songs , accompanied by the harp , to their enjoyment ; although Ramsay qualified his rapture by some regret that , there being insufficient room in their ingle-neuk for playing the harp , she had to perform outside it , and he was deprived of the nearness which he found so much to his taste . |
| 29 | But it had a hole in it and he was recognised by the staff . |
| 30 | A large hole had appeared in the Plexiglass right in front of Ed , and he was struck in the chest . |