Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E was shot in the chest . |
| 2 | The men grouped together ahead of him were hunched against the drizzle . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That left an embarrassed home goalkeeper Ogrizovic to explain how all 6ft 4in of him was beaten by a chip by Arsenal 's substitue from 20 yards and from a daunting angle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The day before F 's death the prisoner who had attacked him was moved into a nearby cell , albeit under continual observation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | He knew that he was not going to be happy if he were deprived of the chance to study . |
| 14 | ‘ So if he were poisoned by the entrée , he did n't display any symptoms for over an hour . |
| 15 | Soering applied to the European Commission of Human Rights on the grounds that there was a serious likelihood that if he were extradited to the United States he would be executed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Burrs of hair were scattered on his scalp ; they were the same muted colour as his skin , as though he were compounded of the dust he played in . |
| 20 | She tried to see if he were concealed among the group hanging around near the circolo , but without lifting her eyes to scan them like a strumpet . |
| 21 | The Bishop retired after he was cautioned by the police for the offences . |
| 22 | Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day . |
| 23 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 24 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 25 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 26 | At the end of November 1990 he was placed by his mother in the voluntary care of the local authority and on 5 December 1990 he was moved to an open unit but which has an attached secure unit . |
| 27 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 28 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |
| 29 | He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him . |
| 30 | I think he was regarded as a bit of a failure in Ukrainian circles because I did n't speak the language or dance . ’ |