Example sentences of "he was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still had a lot more to write but , considering that he was bowing out with Telemachus , he thought that he would not leave a negligible oeuvre behind him . |
| 2 | The days of smoking a pipe suddenly came back to him , and he realized that he was biting down on his own teeth . |
| 3 | He was moved on to the job when we were short-handed last winter , and up-graded from labourer . ’ |
| 4 | She was referring to the illness which put him in hospital last year before he was moved out of Pollsmoor to his present quarters , formerly a prison warden 's home . |
| 5 | On Christmas Day he was moved out by a policeman , and that , he said , was when he lost his faith . |
| 6 | As a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain , he was shot down over Ashford , Kent , on 4 September 1940 and died two days later , sixteen months before the birth of his wife Doris 's son , Michael . |
| 7 | Shortly after joining No 10 Squadron he was shot down during an attack on the Tirpitz at Aasfjord near Trondheim in Norway . |
| 8 | Karl Kühdorf survived , the only one of the more successful pilots to see the war out ; his final score stood at 19 in April 1945 , when he was shot down by Russian anti-aircraft fire and became a prisoner . |
| 9 | He was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter . ’ |
| 10 | Meanwhile Sgt. Harry Ayre recorded that he was shot down after ten minutes in the air . |
| 11 | The head of the Ghanaian army , Major-General Barwah , refused to surrender to the conspirators ; he was shot out of hand . |
| 12 | He was to sit in at least thirteen further Parliaments , six times for Guildford and five times for Surrey . |
| 13 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 14 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 15 | And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful ! |
| 16 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 17 | He was darting up to each of the dogs in turn , ears pricked , eyes blazing with devilment , dabbing a paw at them then streaking away . |
| 18 | A young Cornish shoemaker married at the time he was setting up on his own : " his wife 's immediate fortune was ten pounds — a sum to him at that time , of great importance " . |
| 19 | Pearce and Duvall were blurred figures beside the wreck , distinguishable only in that Duvall was carrying the paraffin containers , which he was setting down on the pavement . |
| 20 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 21 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 22 | He was asked to leave Ferrari 's rather funereal office while a major argument took place ; when he was invited back in , he was told Reutemann would be the team 's Number One driver . |
| 23 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 24 | But as he writhed on the carpet after the sprint , he was ticked off by 28-year-old Angela for ‘ over-reacting . ’ |
| 25 | Danny Brady claims he was bundled out of his room by a gang of 6 men , one of whom threatened him saying he did karate . |
| 26 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 27 | He was leaning out of the shelter . |
| 28 | He was leaning back in his chair smoking a long , fat cigarette in a stubby black holder . |
| 29 | He was leaning back in his seat , dark eyes watching her . |
| 30 | For a moment it was as if he was casting around for suitable names , and then suddenly he was looking past Alexei towards Jehan . |