Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E was shot in the chest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | And even now the closeness of him was acting like a drug on her tired senses , its effect heightened by a heady mixture of desire and fear . |
| 5 | The day before F 's death the prisoner who had attacked him was moved into a nearby cell , albeit under continual observation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | The Bishop retired after he was cautioned by the police for the offences . |
| 13 | ‘ He was preaching on a street in Belfast . |
| 14 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 18 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I think he was regarded as a bit of a failure in Ukrainian circles because I did n't speak the language or dance . ’ |
| 24 | He was regarded as a traitor . |
| 25 | Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted . |
| 26 | He was regarded as a ‘ pretender ’ , imposed on the Jewish nation by the Romans . |
| 27 | He badgered the State Department in an attempt to gain recognition but he was regarded as a tiresome person of no real importance by the bureaucrats in the Roosevelt administration . |
| 28 | In the House of Lords , as in the House of Commons , he was regarded as a leading authority on patent and trade-mark law . |
| 29 | He was regarded as a popular rival of , and possible replacement for , the Prime Minister and current ANAP leader , Yildirim Akbulut . |
| 30 | Liu Huaqing , a 76-year-old general and the new vice-chair of the CMC , was elected to represent the military , as the sole military member of the standing committee ; he was regarded as a political neutral , and was described by the Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 29 as a " no-nonsense professional " who would push for depoliticization and modernization of the military . |