Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his twenties his father and he were sundered by religion . |
| 2 | Soon as you said you ca n't do it he were gone for dust ! |
| 3 | As many practitioners know only too well , many pleas in mitigation would hardly get off the ground if they were not able to point to the possibility of the accused losing his job if he were sent to prison or were to have his driving licence suspended . |
| 4 | ( 1 ) Reid remarks that ‘ a man born blind , if he were instructed in mathematics , would be able to determine the visible figure of a body , when its real figure , distance , and position , are given . ’ |
| 5 | He quivered , very slightly , all over , as though he were perished with cold . |
| 6 | As feudal overlord the King could demand an aid for certain specific purposes : the ransom of his own body if he were captured in war , the knighting of his eldest son , and the marriage of his eldest daughter . |
| 7 | He did not realise the seriousness until his girlfriend told him he was covered with blood . |
| 8 | I could n't tell much about him as he was covered from head to toe in red crash helmet with black visor , red riding leathers and red boots . |
| 9 | Last night police were unable to confirm whether the man had been injured before he was covered by soil . |
| 10 | His feet were bleeding and he was covered in dust . |
| 11 | ‘ They say he escaped along the line , ’ someone announced , ‘ because he was covered in blood . ’ |
| 12 | I had to climb off and lead him out , and he was covered in mud all down one side . ’ |
| 13 | He was covered in mud and swaying with exhaustion . |
| 14 | Oh , he was covered in dirt and spoke like an actor reciting his lines but he made one mistake . |
| 15 | His style turned out to be somewhat autocratic and abrasive , and he was regarded with suspicion and some dislike by the older departmental managers . |
| 16 | MUSA ANTER : A Kurdish journalist , he was shot to death in Diyarbakir , south east Turkey , on 20 September 1992 ; |
| 17 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 18 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , yes , ’ Maureen said , then suddenly burst out , ‘ He was tricked into marriage , Joe . |
| 20 | There were few peasant proprietors ( perhaps six per cent. ) but tenant farmers enjoyed the best customary tenure outside Catalonia and the Basque Provinces ; if rents were higher , the tenant could not be evicted ; he was compensated for improvement and his rents settled by arbitration . |
| 21 | Of medium stature and with strong , sensitive features , he was reserved by nature and a man of few words , but had a delightful , dry sense of humour . |
| 22 | He was stood in front of me in the sandwich queue the other day and . |
| 23 | A great deal of nonsense has been spoken and written in recent years concerning his lordship and the prominent role he came to play in great affairs , and some utterly ignorant reports have had it that he was motivated by egotism or else arrogance . |
| 24 | Now I knew he was connected with sport but I did n't know whether it was cricket or football . |
| 25 | He was broken with compassion as he watched her crashing like a falling star , pulled by gravity and centripetal forces towards the consummation of the sun and in a moment of weakness he relaxed his will . |
| 26 | Recently he was adopted by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience . |
| 27 | Thomas Cromwell the chief agent for the King for dissolution of the monasteries 1535–38 , made many enemies during his brief reign , especially among the clergy , His reign ended in July 1540 , when he was beheaded for treason . |
| 28 | He was condemned to death , and saved only by the intervention of a German padre . |
| 29 | He was condemned to death in his absence ( 469 ) and arrived in Persia as late as 465 , eluding en route an Athenian fleet which was besieging Naxos . |
| 30 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |