Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop retired after he was cautioned by the police for the offences . |
| 2 | ‘ He was preaching on a street in Belfast . |
| 3 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |
| 4 | Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day . |
| 5 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 6 | He was moved to the estate after his old home was " redeveloped " . |
| 7 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 8 | At the end of November 1990 he was placed by his mother in the voluntary care of the local authority and on 5 December 1990 he was moved to an open unit but which has an attached secure unit . |
| 9 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 10 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |
| 11 | He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him . |
| 12 | I think he was regarded as a bit of a failure in Ukrainian circles because I did n't speak the language or dance . ’ |
| 13 | He was regarded as a traitor . |
| 14 | Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted . |
| 15 | He was regarded as a ‘ pretender ’ , imposed on the Jewish nation by the Romans . |
| 16 | He badgered the State Department in an attempt to gain recognition but he was regarded as a tiresome person of no real importance by the bureaucrats in the Roosevelt administration . |
| 17 | In the House of Lords , as in the House of Commons , he was regarded as a leading authority on patent and trade-mark law . |
| 18 | He was regarded as a popular rival of , and possible replacement for , the Prime Minister and current ANAP leader , Yildirim Akbulut . |
| 19 | Liu Huaqing , a 76-year-old general and the new vice-chair of the CMC , was elected to represent the military , as the sole military member of the standing committee ; he was regarded as a political neutral , and was described by the Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 29 as a " no-nonsense professional " who would push for depoliticization and modernization of the military . |
| 20 | he was regarded as a very very smart man |
| 21 | Although early in his career he was regarded as a protege of Forbes he was largely uninfluenced by the so-called ‘ new realism ’ of the Newlyn school … |
| 22 | Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion . |
| 23 | He was regarded as the patron of herdsmen and their flocks , and , as the father of ROMULUS AND REMUS , was the honorary patron of Rome . |
| 24 | He was regarded as the professional equivalent of Fred Perry but , as a professional , was never allowed to play for his country . |
| 25 | He was regarded as the architect of the PLO 's security and counterintelligence apparatus and was frequently assumed to have presided over the creation of the Black September organization , which was active from 1971-73 and whose actions included the attack at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 . |
| 26 | He was regarded as the classic book lover . |
| 27 | Fans loved his skill , he was regarded as the wizard of dribble . |
| 28 | He was amused to discover that , despite two years in the merchant navy , he was regarded as an unspoiled youth by those who , like Minton , resented the de-naturalising effect of privilege and the public school system . |
| 29 | He was regarded as an independent , but increasingly he became Aung San 's adviser , supplying the inside knowledge of British forms of government and administration which Bogyoke lacked . |
| 30 | One of the parliamentary commissioners who escorted the king to Holdenby , he was regarded as an enemy by the army council . |