Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday it was revealed that PC Hall escaped death by a whisker when he was shot at point-blank range . |
| 2 | At the outset he was given at most a one-in-10 chance of survival . |
| 3 | Having started dancing on the advice of a PE teacher , he was accepted at 16 into the Royal Ballet Upper School , the only black student there . |
| 4 | The manuscript suggests that he was born at some date between 1485 and 1492 , and his latest completed work is dated 1546 . |
| 5 | This turkey found that , on his first morning at the turkey farm , he was fed at 9 a.m . |
| 6 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 7 | At the 1987 election he was cocooned at Labour headquarters , surrounded by television screens , satellite aerials and endlessly insistent telephones . |
| 8 | Since the Earl of Holland was ‘ a man of greater dignity than knowledge in the Lawes of the Forest , he was assisted at various times by judges of the common law courts who advised him on points of law . |
| 9 | He was educated at New College , Oxford , as one of a small band of mature students sponsored in 1937 by the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-mural Studies , got a soccer Blue , and became a lifelong worker for the WEA . |
| 10 | He was educated at New College , Oxford , and proceeded to the degree of BCL in 1599 , having become MA and studied civil law for three years . |
| 11 | he was educated at Quaker schools in Penkelt , Cheshire ; Bootham School , York ; and Glasgow High School . |
| 12 | He was educated at Quaker institutions : Sidcot School and Woodbrooke College , Birmingham , where he took the social studies course . |
| 13 | He was educated at private schools in London , then served his apprenticeship from 1879 to 1882 in the locomotive works in Bow . |
| 14 | He was educated at private schools in England , the Athénée Royal in Brussels , and in Paris . |
| 15 | He was educated at private schools in Kew and Maida Vale , and in 1866 entered the Royal College of Chemistry , presided over by Dr Edward Frankland . |
| 16 | He was educated at top school Ampleforth — not Eton as many believe . |
| 17 | He was educated at local schools and at the Leeds Mechanics ' Institution and Literary Society , where he was a diligent student in drawing and mathematics . |
| 18 | He was educated at local authority schools in Lowestoft , Hemel Hempstead , and London , and evening classes in Manchester . |
| 19 | He was educated at local schools , including the Devonport Classical and Mathematical School , and became an apprentice to his father . |
| 20 | He was educated at local council schools until he obtained employment as a shipping clerk , working with several companies until he was thirty-eight . |
| 21 | He was educated at secondary school in Vienna and at the University of Vienna , where he graduated in medicine in 1927 . |
| 22 | Asif Mujtaba had made his first Test half-century and seemed quite settled , while England will have felt apprehensive about Salim Malik after he was spared at 22 by Gooch at slip , low and to his left , off Lewis . |
| 23 | Payton scotched speculation he was unsettled at Ayresome Park . |
| 24 | In 1911 Law was known — in so far as he was known at all in the parliamentary party — as a spirited debater . |
| 25 | Spooks in films could pass unrecognized through airports , and North sometimes gave out instructions that if he was spotted at such-and-such a place , he should not be acknowledged . |
| 26 | He was buried at that most busy of London churches , St Luke 's , Old Street , leaving a widow who would run a little milliner 's business in Soho before dying , 23 years later , in Westminster . |
| 27 | If he was hurt at all , it was but a minor hurt — he walked where he was led . ’ |
| 28 | He was arrested at 6 a.m. and detained at a police station until his interview began after noon . |
| 29 | She , Topaz , would love Andrew whilst she still drew breath , but he was imprisoned at High Brook with a wife he loathed . |
| 30 | He had a 5K timing of 13.36 and at the 10K mark he was clocked at 28.18 , so Gerry Curtis ' Bangor record of 28.24 will be under threat . |