Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 32 | The same year that he was dubbed biggest flirt , Debbie Kauffman was voted her year 's best looking girl . |
| 33 | Fernandez , as he was to do some years later , provided a link to Dave 's caddying days with one Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 34 | Very shortly before Maxwell embarked on his last voyage on the Lady Ghislaine he was discussing legal matters with the Legal Director of Mirror Group Newspapers , Arthur Davidson . |
| 35 | He was porking this hooker who was also in bed with a Russian spy . ’ |
| 36 | A rumour that he was casting 100 children went round St James 's School in Church Street , so instead of going straight home the girl pupils nipped off to the audition . |
| 37 | He was killed five days later when his Hurricane . |
| 38 | Tragically he was killed five days later in a third attempt . |
| 39 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 40 | Where he 'd come from and where he was ensured one thing : like Garnett , Mercer , and Loach , Goodwin was a socialist . |
| 41 | The Turks are particularly skilled at copying all manner of goods , and the young RAOC Supply Specialist Corporal visited six Bedford suppliers in the local town , and drank at least a gallon of cif , before he was satisfied that he was buying genuine Bedford parts ! |
| 42 | Even before the first exit polls came in he was buying new tackle in readiness . |
| 43 | He was to die four years later . |
| 44 | Word spread that he was producing custom-build detectors able to meet the most demanding requirements , and the foundations of the Garrett legend had been laid . |
| 45 | Favour with the king was combined with papal favour , for he was styled papal chaplain by 1250 . |
| 46 | He was stating three things . |
| 47 | At the Sheffield Arena , he was magnified 10 times on a giant screen , the better for 8,000 party followers to see him . |
| 48 | He was to teach Sixth Form Mathematics with great distinction from 1921 until his own retirement . |
| 49 | Apart from the political overtones and undertones , Nicholson knew he was breaking new ground with one specific sex scene in which he showed full-frontal nudity and a fairly complete filming of the sex act itself , still unheard of in the movies , in spite of the musical Hair . |
| 50 | He was joined last week by a handful of defeated Liberal Democrats including Nicol Stephen , who won Kincardine and Deesside the same night Dr Kumar won Langbaurgh November 7 . |
| 51 | He was receiving last minute instructions from the professor . |
| 52 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 53 | The Marquis still faces charges of dodging taxi fares , but the case was adjourned after a court heard he was receiving psychiatric treatment . |
| 54 | The next day Shamir pointedly announced that he was receiving large offers of money from Jews around the world . |
| 55 | No , even Ebert had n't known he was bringing two experts with him . |
| 56 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 57 | Seeing Harry coming down the wet , narrow street , she knew straight away that he was bringing bad news . |
| 58 | He was hit several times and died shortly afterwards . |
| 59 | The shooting took place in the Highfield Estate off the Shankill Road and local people said he was hit several times in the head by gunmen who sped from the scene in a car . |
| 60 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |