Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E was shot in the chest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Only that he were hiding in the garden . ’ |
| 6 | And what if Martin does n't have any children ; or , say , if he were to die in the war and you survived , what then … |
| 7 | He affirms once again his belief that " our period is one of decline " but then mutters his exequies in a curiously dispassionate manner , as if he were engaged in an intellectual exercise of no particular consequence . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal was satisfied that the following matters were among those to which attention should be paid : 1 The nature of the employment Employment in a capacity where " confidential " material is habitually handled may impose a high obligation of confidentiality because the employee can be expected to realise its sensitive nature to a greater extent than if he were employed in a capacity where such material reaches him only occasionally or incidentally . |
| 9 | And now Martha and he were united in a strange fellow feeling , which neither of them had expected , and which they had to shake off with difficulty . |
| 10 | He was regarded in the industry as the main driving force behind the acquisitions . |
| 11 | He was burrowing in a briefcase while he waited . |
| 12 | He was lumped in the same class as telly slob Rab C. Nesbitt in a survey out yesterday . |
| 13 | He says he was shot in a gun battle with Iraqi troops but escaped to Saudi Arabia . |
| 14 | A relative of the Sinn Fein councillor Alex Maskey , he was shot in an industrial estate at lunchtime . |
| 15 | In the first wave of the attack he was shot in the head and thrown on top of me . |
| 16 | He was shot in the back . |
| 17 | Navid Sadiq , 15 , died two days after he was shot in the head during the hold-up at his uncle Nasser Ali 's shop , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 18 | He was shot in the chest . |
| 19 | Riding with his wife in an open car through Dallas , he was shot in the neck and head by an assassin . |
| 20 | Oral tradition affirms that the Camerons as well as the Stewarts of Appin were actively countenancing two , if not three , attempts on Glenure 's life on 14 May 1752 , the day on which he was shot in the back by a killer who escaped unrecognized . |
| 21 | In 1918 he was shot in the knee while on a bombing raid and spent some time in hospital before being awarded an army scholarship , which enabled him to complete his studies at the City and Guilds College , London . |
| 22 | He was shot in the thigh while trying to avoid arrest at the Danish frontier in May 1945 , and tried for treason in London in September . |
| 23 | He was shot in the heart five years ago . |
| 24 | The last poker hand dealt to Wild Bill Hickok , just before he was shot in the back by Jack McCall in Deadwood City , South Dakota . |
| 25 | The plaintiff went to work in a new job after the accident and while at work he was shot in the left leg during an armed robbery . |
| 26 | 10 year old Richard Hall playing with his brother , Clark at the spot near their Banbury home , where just 3 days ago he was shot in the head . |
| 27 | An inquest on Grant Mann has been told that he was shot in the head at close range . |
| 28 | She says he was shot in the chest . |
| 29 | Hundreds of people followed the cortege of Mr Peacock , a prison officer , from his Joanmount Park home where he was shot in the back to the Holy Trinity Parish Church on the Oldpark Road , in north Belfast . |
| 30 | Mr Jacks , 23 , whose parents live in Welshpool , bled to death after he was shot in the thigh when three masked men burst into his flat in Putney , south-west London , on June 5 . |