Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | ‘ 'E was making funny noises , ’ the maid offered importantly , and , pleased at the instant attention this won her , added , ‘ Like when me ma 's 'aving another . ’ |
2 | It seems that the whole force has been under the direct comd of General Loehr , until contact with him was lost many days ago . " |
3 | By the time they had risen above the storm , there was a slight smile on his lips , as if he were thinking pleasant thoughts . |
4 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he were to convert all loans under the social fund to grants , as has been promised by the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) , the cost would be about £130 million and would greatly prejudice the operation of the social fund as it now works ? |
5 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |
6 | Then he were having some Aunts come from er his Aunts from er Manchester . |
7 | He was shot five times in a taxi cab in June , two months after being beaten by thugs with baseball bats . |
8 | It was claimed that in developing an aggressive new foreign policy , he was disregarding nationalist dreams of recovering control of the mainland . |
9 | He was facing stormy Commons scenes this afternoon as he came under more pressure during Prime Minister 's question time . |
10 | He suddenly felt he was facing impossible odds . |
11 | It was just that it was intriguingly difficult to tell if he was issuing blunt ultimatums to a financial contact , or responding to some emotional problem at the other end of the line … |
12 | This was an action that he was to repeat many times before any true subjugation of the Saxons was achieved . |
13 | The child was born on 10 May 1977 and he was adopted two years later . |
14 | Suddenly conscious that he was flashing past vehicles which appeared to be dawdling , he glanced at the speedometer . |
15 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
16 | Fernandez , as he was to do some years later , provided a link to Dave 's caddying days with one Severiano Ballesteros . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | He was killed five days later when his Hurricane . |
20 | Tragically he was killed five days later in a third attempt . |
21 | He was to die four years later . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | He was stating three things . |
24 | At the Sheffield Arena , he was magnified 10 times on a giant screen , the better for 8,000 party followers to see him . |
25 | The next day Shamir pointedly announced that he was receiving large offers of money from Jews around the world . |
26 | No , even Ebert had n't known he was bringing two experts with him . |
27 | He was hit several times and died shortly afterwards . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 ? |
30 | He was stabbed 8 times in the lungs and intestines in a frenzied attack at the Plough pub in Bicester . |