Example sentences of "he was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One day when he was extremely unrealistic and euphoric , I really became upset ; it was like going in to see a stranger — he was receiving a high dosage of morphine at that time — and I called his pulmonary doctor and requested that something be done or an explanation be given . |
| 32 | They drew near the trees and Corbett felt he was entering a different world . |
| 33 | It was while he was bringing a second helping of kedgeree to Fishbane that the row broke out a few tables away . |
| 34 | Moreover , he was riding a dangerous path . |
| 35 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 36 | I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost . |
| 37 | In fact , he rarely came out of Bath and Wells , where he was proving a conscientious diocesan , predictably of a brisk administrative turn of mind . |
| 38 | He was to use a black briefcase fitted with a concealed 9mm pistol and silencer . |
| 39 | He was given a three-year driving ban . |
| 40 | Mr Justice Saville said the Commercial Court was a part of the Queen 's Bench and he would not exclude observers unless he was given a good reason to do so . |
| 41 | He was given a ballooning operation , one of 300 performed at Bart 's this year , to widen the arteries to his heart . |
| 42 | English cases are few , but a threat to get back money owing to the accused falls within s.34(2) ( a ) ( i ) : Parkes [ 1973 ] Crim LR 358 ; and a threat by a person suffering from osteoarthritis to a doctor that he would shoot him unless he was given a pain- killing injection was held to be blackmail in Bevans ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 64 ( CA ) , a decision which extends blackmail beyond being a property offence . |
| 43 | He was given a key and left to find his own way up two flights of stairs . |
| 44 | He was given a two-year suspended sentence . |
| 45 | Reformed junkie Davies , who has served two prison sentences , met stunning Fiona Brown , 28 , when he was given a two-year probation order for theft . |
| 46 | That it was the wrong remedy was discovered later when he was given a higher potency which helped the eczema but made the asthma worse . |
| 47 | THE family of jailed Briton Michael Wainwright were stunned last night after he was given a 10-year sentence in Iraq . |
| 48 | But Colin French now facing the prospect of jail … because last November he was given a six month prison sentence suspended for two years . |
| 49 | He was given a six months sentence , suspended for three years . |
| 50 | He was given a great welcome by the waiters and Jane was introduced to the Maître in person . |
| 51 | He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious . |
| 52 | He was given a small part in a film and one of his fellow extras was Harold Lloyd . |
| 53 | Taking his troubles to his doctor , he was given a long prescription , which he presented to the chemist without first reading it . |
| 54 | Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn . |
| 55 | When the day came , Grégoire was carefully prepared : he was given a new haircut ; George himself supervised his washing procedure , which was inclined to be haphazard . |
| 56 | He was given a new two-year contract in March . |
| 57 | A man has made medical history by having four organ transplants.In two operations he was given a new heart , two lungs and a kidney.It was the first time in Europe so many organs had been replaced successfully.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 58 | He was given a 15-day prison sentence which was suspended on the provision that he paid £2.50-a-week off his debt to the council . |
| 59 | He was given a conditional discharge . |
| 60 | He was given a conditional discharge for 12 months . |