Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His predecessor , Nicholas Ridley , had favoured the building of Foxley Wood , but his approach to the environment was so unpopular that he was moved to another department . |
| 2 | As long as they had been promptly informed he was covered for any eventuality . |
| 3 | The students were immediately with him , and he was regarded with much affection . |
| 4 | However much the excise supervisor may have been appreciated by the councillors of St. Andrews , he was regarded with less enthusiasm at the Treasury , and the member of parliament was told bluntly that if any office about St. Andrews fell vacant , which was usually left to the recommendation of the Burgh Member , he should have the nomination , and as Scott advised the provost , ‘ they hoped that from reasons which must naturally occur to myself , I would be satisfied with the propriety of their answer ’ . |
| 5 | He was regarded on both sides of the House not only as charming , but as very honest and courageous , and I think that we can genuinely say that he had friendships on both sides . |
| 6 | One recruit of the period is worth special mention as he was regarded by many as a genius . |
| 7 | It is not known how he was related to former kings of Mercia , but it is possible that he represented a line claiming descent from Penda . |
| 8 | In a series of acts dating from 1317 , 1322 and 1328 he was compensated for any losses sustained through the renunciation of that claim . |
| 9 | But do you know , me cousin Eric , who 's quite a lot older than me , was at Scarborough with me Uncle and and his mother and dad and he was only a little one and he was stood in that narrow street that goes off , off the |
| 10 | He was connected with several industry-wide associations and committees , as well as being chairman of the London coronation accommodation committee ( 1937 ) . |
| 11 | The hints he had thrown out , that he was connected in some illegitimate way with the Hamilton family , could be dismissed as a typical lie told to impress , another Cape Horn . |
| 12 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 13 | He had a style and presence about him , a quality he was to demonstrate with much success later both with ITN and the BBC . |
| 14 | ‘ He was recognised by all classes as a Christian gentleman , courteous , affable , and sympathetic . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He had this great ability to get to know people very quickly , and wherever he was , he was invited to all the best and most glittering parties . |
| 16 | He had wealth , position and authority , and by nature of his association with Mrs Katherine Lundy , he was invited to some of the best parties in London society . |
| 17 | Please heaven that she would n't find out that he was involved after all , because something warned her that that would be more than she could ever cope with . |
| 18 | During the wait Mozart was given the chance of trying an organ in the local church ( something he was to do in many of the towns that the family later visited ) : |
| 19 | He was killed by that blow on the head — a thoroughly savage blow . |
| 20 | ‘ So why do you believe he was killed in that fashion ? ’ |
| 21 | He was killed in this battle erm , is that of interest ? |
| 22 | Because he had actually found the cut wires he was grilled for several days , as were several other suspects , all electricians . |
| 23 | Despite this , however , he was treated with some suspicion by Parliament , who restricted his ability to raise taxes to pay for army or navy forces , so he turned to Louis XIV of France , who secretly made funds available so as to improve the failing status of the Roman Catholic Church in England , where the Church of England virtually excluded all ‘ dissenters ’ , which included Roman Catholics . |
| 24 | By ‘ market situation ’ he was referring to such factors as wages , job security and promotion prospects . |
| 25 | He was referring to that glorious trio of cliffs , Ramshaw Rocks , Hen Cloud and the Roaches . |
| 26 | He was referring to that curious mixture of kings , lords and commons which have been the essential elements of Britain 's unwritten — and until now unchallenged — constitution . |
| 27 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry , I just wanted to make a couple of points in response to erm things that people have said in relation to my opening statement , erm Mr Brook er mentioned the fact that er none of the employe none of the new settlement proposals of which he was aware , erm included an employment element , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that our suggested reworking of policy H two does provide for an explicit land er amount of land for employment purposes , erm as part of the new settlement location , I wanted to say that because I , I 'm not invited to appear on your employment day , and I do feel that this is an important component of the the H two strategy , and clearly that employment component will be drawn from the Greater York allocation , the second point , Mr Sexton erm I believe said that in his view you could not find a site for a larger new settlement er within the or outside the Greater York er greenbelt , erm which would not result in physical coalescence with the existing villages in the area , now I 'm not sure whether he was referring to any particular size of larger new settlement , but I invite you to look at the er land range at one to fifty thousand er map of the area , and you will see that the area outside the greenbelt is characterized by erm a very rural area with sporadic villages , and my believe is that there are erm sites available within that area which could accommodate a larger new settlement , the planning point is of course the larger the new settlement becomes , I think the less that that the reduced number of sites you will have available to accommodate erm that proposal , because of its scale , and the third aspect I want to comment on Mr Cunnane and Mr Thomas erm said that Barton Willmore had not made a need argument for the new settlement , well if I 'm not mistaken that 's what we spent most of this morning discussing under policy H one , and I do n't erm I do n't wish , and I do n't suppose that I 'd be invited to repeat the comments made by Mr Grigson this morning , I do n't think there 's any need for that , but that establishes in our mind very clearly there is a need for a new settlement in the range of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , erm in the period up to two thousand and six , and I wo n't say anything more on that . |
| 29 | When I left , he was calling for more beer . |
| 30 | His training had benefited from the extra time , he was assured by any superior who could spare the energy to talk to him , and indeed he was an expert radio operator and cipherist , who could also — in theory — kill , survive , and use a parachute . |