Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E was shot in the chest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | The Bishop retired after he was cautioned by the police for the offences . |
| 10 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 13 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion . |
| 17 | He was regarded as the patron of herdsmen and their flocks , and , as the father of ROMULUS AND REMUS , was the honorary patron of Rome . |
| 18 | He was regarded as the professional equivalent of Fred Perry but , as a professional , was never allowed to play for his country . |
| 19 | He was regarded as the architect of the PLO 's security and counterintelligence apparatus and was frequently assumed to have presided over the creation of the Black September organization , which was active from 1971-73 and whose actions included the attack at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 . |
| 20 | He was regarded as the classic book lover . |
| 21 | Fans loved his skill , he was regarded as the wizard of dribble . |
| 22 | He was regarded in the industry as the main driving force behind the acquisitions . |
| 23 | A vicious circle had been created : the more pressure the Americans exerted on Castro , the more inclined he was to move into the arms of the Russians . |
| 24 | He was airlifted onto the mountain as molten lava threatened to swamp the village of Zaffarana . |
| 25 | He was lumped in the same class as telly slob Rab C. Nesbitt in a survey out yesterday . |
| 26 | When Dorothy came home from town , however , he was digging over the vegetable patch , despite its half-frozen state and the gently falling snow . |
| 27 | He was shot through the forehead as they played with the gun . |
| 28 | But he was n't killed in action , he was shot by the British after being caught red handed spying FOR the Japanese . |
| 29 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
| 30 | In the first wave of the attack he was shot in the head and thrown on top of me . |