Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had all the ladders were out the van , and he were using all George 's tools . |
| 2 | A spokesman said Mr Wood had opened negotiations with Standard Chartered , a London-based overseas bank , as far back as January , but only told Mr Buxton that he was leaving last Monday . |
| 3 | The Turks are particularly skilled at copying all manner of goods , and the young RAOC Supply Specialist Corporal visited six Bedford suppliers in the local town , and drank at least a gallon of cif , before he was satisfied that he was buying genuine Bedford parts ! |
| 4 | He was to sire ten UK champions , a record only equalled by the Elsden 's other great stud dog , Ch. |
| 5 | He was getting that Mary Celeste feeling . |
| 6 | He was apprenticed 2 December 1712 to Samuel Wastell , a London goldsmith , and made free of the Goldsmiths ' Company by service on 16 June 1720 . |
| 7 | , Sir Paul ( 1613–1685/6 ) , courtier , scientific patron , and founder member of the Royal Society , was born in Westminster , where he was baptized 11 May 1613 . |
| 8 | He was baptized 11 April 1675 . |
| 9 | , Henry ( 1629–1692 ) , journalist , was born in the Strand , London ( he was baptized 5 February 1629 ) , the son of Edward Muddiman , a prosperous tradesman who had come from Wolfamcote , Warwickshire . |
| 10 | , John ( 1743–1821 ) , instrument-maker , was born in Dearham , Cumberland , late June 1743 ( he was baptized 1 July ) , the second of four children ( the eldest of whom predeceased him ) and elder son of Jonathan Cuthbertson , an innkeeper and yeoman , and his second wife Mary Fisher . |
| 11 | He was baptized 14 November 1620 . |
| 12 | , Matthew ( 1753–1781 ) , engineer and inventor , was born at 3 Narrow Wine Street , Bristol , where he was baptized 18 November 1753 , the son of Mary and William Wasbrough , originally a barber-surgeon and peruke maker , who was in partnership with Roger Rice in a brass-founding and clock-making business in Narrow Wine Street . |
| 13 | , George ( 1806–1877 ) , analytical chemist , was born in February 1806 ( he was baptized 12 July 1807 ) in Totnes , Devon , the child of James Phillipps , druggist , and his wife Ann . |
| 14 | , Sir John , second baronet ( 1643–1706 ) , parliamentarian and pioneer industrialist , was born in Whitehaven–St Bees in 1643 ( he was baptized 20 November 1643 ) , the son ( there was also a daughter ) of Sir Christopher Lowther and his wife Frances , heiress of the Lancasters of Sockbridge , Westmorland . |
| 15 | , John ( 1709–1784 ) , collector of prints and drawings , was born in London in 1709 ( he was baptized 25 August 1709 at St Lawrence Pountney ) , the eldest of the three children and only son of Sir John Barnard [ q.v. ] of Greenwood , MP for the City of London , and Jane , daughter of John Godshall , a London merchant trading with Turkey . |
| 16 | While he was doing this Maggie took a pan of boiling water from the cooker and laid it by the side of the sink . |
| 17 | He was buried 1 May 1689 at St Andrew Undershaft in London . |
| 18 | He was buried 8 August 1795 in the parish church of Hendon . |
| 19 | He possessed a house in Twickenham in addition to his official residence in the palace of Westminster , but his principal seat was in Eydon , Northamptonshire , where he was buried 8 June 1691 . |
| 20 | He was buried 18 July 1821 in his parish church , St James 's , Piccadilly , and probably died intestate . |
| 21 | He was buried 3 September 1592 . |
| 22 | He was buried 12 February 1723 , having outlived his wife ( who died in 1694 ) and all but two of his children . |
| 23 | He lived on quietly at Fen Ditton , where he was buried 9 December 1690 . |
| 24 | He was buried 30 August 1683 . |
| 25 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 26 | He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 . |
| 27 | He was arrested last Thursday in London . |
| 28 | In 1887 he was invited to Kensington chapel , where he was ordained 17 October 1889 : determined that Horne should be its minister , Kensington waited eighteen months for him to complete his course . |
| 29 | What he was saying hurt Shiona more than she could ever have believed possible . |
| 30 | He also plans to return to Milan 's La Scala opera house where he was jeered last December for missing a note during a performance of Verdi 's ‘ Don Carlos . ’ |