Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that the whole force has been under the direct comd of General Loehr , until contact with him was lost many days ago . " |
| 2 | Before this interrogation , he had reluctantly agreed to allow his wife to conduct it , being unable to argue against her contention that if he were to perform that duty , his questioning would inevitably be biased in the girl 's favour . |
| 3 | If he were to ask many people in the north-east where they come from , they would say ’ the north-east ’ . |
| 4 | He had all the ladders were out the van , and he were using all George 's tools . |
| 5 | We have also made it absolutely clear that we will ensure that our deterrent is effective and absolutely credible , and that it puts real fear into any potential aggressor about the damage that he could suffer if he were to attack this country . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Then he were having some Aunts come from er his Aunts from er Manchester . |
| 8 | For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved . |
| 9 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 10 | Frightened by the threat of invasion ( Fears in Solitude ) , he was beginning that slide or jump to the Right which angered and puzzled his liberal associates , though it is fair to say that his revolutionary sympathies , unlike Wordsworth 's , had never been more than superficial . |
| 11 | This was an action that he was to repeat many times before any true subjugation of the Saxons was achieved . |
| 12 | At Canton his early success , as commercial agent for opium merchants in India , led to his association with Magniac & Company , and by 1826 he was controlling that firm 's Canton operations . |
| 13 | Fernandez , as he was to do some years later , provided a link to Dave 's caddying days with one Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 14 | He was porking this hooker who was also in bed with a Russian spy . ’ |
| 15 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 16 | He was hit several times and died shortly afterwards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was asked this question abotu ten years after the book came out and he said he 'd never do a sequal . |
| 19 | Graham Townsend was alone in his shop at three fifteen this afternoon … details of what happened are sketchy … but he was stabbed several times in the chest by one of three youths who were trying to steal jewellery … they ran off … and Mr Townsend called an ambulance … a neighbour came to his aid . |
| 20 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 21 | ‘ He was seeing some woman , like mother said . ’ |
| 22 | There were found footprint evidences that young Brown had crossed and recrossed Hunder Beck , that he had been at the top of the high moor , and he was traced half way back , with probably thirty-six sheep which were recovered on Sunday . |
| 23 | He was given much responsibility , superb training , and wide experience of the emerging process industries . |
| 24 | He had shouted that he was a reporter but he was struck several blows on the head and shoved into the police tender . |
| 25 | He was examined several times by Dr Crockett in his surgery , but was never told a kidney would be removed . |
| 26 | He was examined several times by Dr Crockett in his surgery , but was never told a kidney would be removed . |
| 27 | He looked as if he was reciting some charm to ward off evil spirits . |
| 28 | The boat was gone completely , and he was tossed this way and that in the water . |
| 29 | erm , Jay 's sister , Tamsin it 's her twenty first on Monday , so he was , like , write out her birthday card , right , and he was like , trying to write something funny , so he was constructing this thing , like reading it out to me , and half an hour when I first got there . |
| 30 | He suffered constantly from fever ; he was frequently threatened by bandits and once nearly murdered ; he was injured several times ; he endured hot summers and cold winters and periodical earthquakes . |