Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 'E was shot in the chest . |
2 | ( As in inscriptions , e.g. Syll. 1016 from fourth-century BC Iasos in Karia : ‘ let him be excluded from the sacred place ’ . ) |
3 | The men grouped together ahead of him were hunched against the drizzle . |
4 | It is not known how his interest in electricity developed , but in 1787 two papers by him were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . |
5 | Lawrence Pearson was an outstanding man by any standards who gave prodigious service to the building industry , resulting in him being invested with the Order of the British Empire in 1976 . |
6 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
7 | If the accused was not seen to take the property such evidence as him being seen near the scene of the crime or being found in possession of the property is useful . |
8 | ‘ Can we stay and watch him being moved onto the trolley ? ’ |
9 | That would lead to him being stripped of the WBC title and Lewis declared champion . |
10 | All that 's stopping him being welcomed into the great freemasonry of the over-fifties is that he happens to be thirty-two . |
11 | Liverpool manager Graeme Souness on the incident after the game with Moscow Spartak which led to him being suspended from the touchline for five European matches by UEFA |
12 | ‘ I heard him being interviewed on the news a few minutes ago , ’ Bridget added . |
13 | You say I ca n't go , and Father — well , look at him ; can you see him being taken to the Queen 's presence ? ’ |
14 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
15 | In the beginning , it is serene and peaceful , with lots of idyllic scenes and brilliant colours , but it ends with him being confronted by the nightmare of attending his own funeral . |
16 | The stallion ( left ) is relaxed but vigilant ; the mare next to him is bothered by the foal pushing between them from behind : her ears show the focus of her attention , while her wrinkled nostril betrays irritation . |
17 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
18 | Wyllie , who stood down as a candidate for the All Black job after a confidential letter from NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks criticising him was leaked to the press , returns to what he loves most , working with clubs to develop the skill and the knowledge of the average club player . |
19 | For all his international notoriety , Harari is barely known in his native country , and the one photograph known to exist of him was reprinted on the front pages of newspapers yesterday accompanying the news of his arrest . |
20 | The defence against him was supervised by the Archbishop of York , and three holy banners of St Peter of York , St John of Beverley and St Wilfrid of Ripon were flown from a standard in a cart , giving the subsequent engagement near Northallerton the name of ‘ Battle of the Standard ’ . |
21 | I made a great bonfire of it and stood and watched it burn until every trace of him was wiped off the face of the earth . ’ |
22 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
23 | Until recently he must have lived at Horton in Ivinghoe , where he had £2 a year in land , for the entry there concerning him was cancelled with the gloss ‘ quia in Edlesboro non computetor ? ’ |
24 | Had he been interned until the end of the war in Tost or one of the other civilian camps , he would probably have faced no charges . |
25 | Had he been charged with the more serious offence of causing death by reckless driving , he would have faced a Crown court and a jail sentence of up to five years . |
26 | Where was he , had he been taken by the constables ? |
27 | All right , he was what he was : he was n't fundamentally a nice man , yet , had he been greeted in the beginning by this old woman as Andrew Jones had , how different things might have been . |
28 | Not only will he be accepted on the terraces but also as a drinking partner in the local pubs . |
29 | Nor can he be credited with the chi rho monogram . |
30 | The effect of s80 is that if , for instance , the settlor creates a trust for himself for life and then his son for life or absolutely that in order for the trust to be an excluded property trust the settlor must not be domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time when the settlement is created and nor must he be domiciled in the United Kingdom ( and this would include deemed domiciled in the United Kingdom ) at the time of his death . |