Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore he was preaching against Calvinism . |
| 2 | He did not realise the seriousness until his girlfriend told him he was covered with blood . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Last night police were unable to confirm whether the man had been injured before he was covered by soil . |
| 5 | His feet were bleeding and he was covered in dust . |
| 6 | ‘ They say he escaped along the line , ’ someone announced , ‘ because he was covered in blood . ’ |
| 7 | I had to climb off and lead him out , and he was covered in mud all down one side . ’ |
| 8 | He was covered in mud and swaying with exhaustion . |
| 9 | Oh , he was covered in dirt and spoke like an actor reciting his lines but he made one mistake . |
| 10 | His style turned out to be somewhat autocratic and abrasive , and he was regarded with suspicion and some dislike by the older departmental managers . |
| 11 | Robert 's interests shifted to Hertfordshire in the late 1470s when he married the widow of Sir Ralph Josselin , but even before this he is never recorded as acting with the duke in the north , and after Richard 's accession he was to move into opposition , along with his brother Roger . |
| 12 | Robert 's interests shifted to Hertfordshire in the late 1470s when he married the widow of Sir Ralph Josselin , but even before this he is never recorded as acting with the duke in the north , and after Richard 's accession he was to move into opposition , along with his brother Roger . |
| 13 | The most remarkable example of such a deposit in Britain is that at Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey , found by a contractor during the last war when he was digging for peat . |
| 14 | Did you hear about Gustave 's glove bill in the days when he was prancing by candlelight ? |
| 15 | MUSA ANTER : A Kurdish journalist , he was shot to death in Diyarbakir , south east Turkey , on 20 September 1992 ; |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ When he told me he was panning for gold , I simply did n't believe it . |
| 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 | It was one of the conditions the Colonel laid down if he was to remain in hospital . ’ |
| 25 | Now I knew he was connected with sport but I did n't know whether it was cricket or football . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was learning about nature and about life . |
| 28 | But he was learning from experience and moved from town to town to polish his burglary skills . |
| 29 | Recently he was adopted by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience . |
| 30 | 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 . |