Example sentences of "he was [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hardly remember him and what I tell you about him was mostly told to me by my mother . |
| 2 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 3 | Under the tutelage of John Ruskin [ q.v. ] he joined the ‘ Hinksey roadmenders ’ , and through him was later introduced to Octavia Hill [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | My recollection was that the detective story was one of E. Phillips Oppenheim 's , and that it concerned a horrific murder whereby the victim was , so to speak , liquefied and poured down the sink , so that the ‘ essence ’ of him was thus disposed of . |
| 5 | Although Mondello was convicted of lesser charges , including riot , his acquittal on the murder counts was unanticipated because the evidence against him was generally considered to be stronger than that which had led to Fama 's conviction . |
| 6 | When at last he came to his senses , rather ashamed of his lapse into sensitivity , the floor around him was thickly carpeted with tiny discarded wings , as if with the residue of his own aerial poetic thoughts . |
| 7 | The trash and wreckage before him was now shivering with fire as he stood , hands on hips , watching all his powers gather in the smoke . |
| 8 | A CHEATING wife who hired a hitman to kill her husband because she could not divorce him was yesterday jailed for life . |
| 9 | His riding gear was rich but in dark colours , the horse under him was more ornamented in his harness than the rider in his dress , and a very handsome dark roan . |
| 10 | He was conditionally discharged for two years |
| 11 | He was conditionally discharged for twelve months and had to pay £15 compensation . |
| 12 | He was conditionally discharged for 12 months . |
| 13 | He was conditionally discharged at Marylebone court , London . |
| 14 | He was conditionally discharged by Newcastle magistrates in December after admitting assaulting railway worker John Beach . |
| 15 | It was a time when he was immensely drawn to panache , and he felt done with the prim and the hangdog for good . |
| 16 | The recovery of consequential loss is illustrated by Bodley v. Reynolds , where a carpenter 's tools were converted and he was thereby prevented from working . |
| 17 | He was conspicuously trying to be brave , but it was quite clear he had been devastated by the experience . |
| 18 | Almost 30 when he was finally crowned at Scone , and with his naturally introspective , melancholy temperament soured by long , enforced idleness , he drove himself to become a man of action and set about destroying those who had grown rich and powerful in his absence , especially the Albany faction . |
| 19 | When he was finally slain in battle , he asked that his severed head be buried facing the ocean so that no foreign armies could set foot in Ireland without him knowing it . |
| 20 | After some years of controversy ( in which , admittedly , Smith himself did little to smooth things over , tending if anything to exacerbate the situation by his own behaviour ) , he was finally deposed from his chair in 1881 . |
| 21 | He was finally accepted for treatment about eighteen months after his accident . |
| 22 | By now , having experienced the sensation of flying , he felt that his future was in flying the aircraft rather than servicing them on the ground ; in April 1934 he was finally accepted for pilot training . |
| 23 | At the end of the autumn session of Parliament he was finally dismissed from his position as customs commissioner . |
| 24 | Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 . |
| 25 | This was what he 'd wanted of her all the time ; now , he was finally getting to it , baiting the trap not with jewels or furs but with what he assumed would matter to her . |
| 26 | He was finally restrained by police after he grabbed Mrs Rodham as she waited for a bus . |
| 27 | He was finally restrained by police officers from the Diplomatic Protection Squad , who happened to be in the area , and two doormen from a nearby gambling club . |
| 28 | By sheer luck , Ron was able to breath in a tiny air-pocket formed by the rapids , until he was finally rescued by the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team , who risked their own lives to save him . |
| 29 | Invalided back to England , he spent time in various war hospitals and , after exhibiting signs of mental instability ( including a suicide attempt on 19 June 1918 ) , he was finally discharged in October 1918 . |
| 30 | He was finally released on 19 October 1989 . |