Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until he was contacted the arriving forces had no idea of what to expect . |
| 2 | ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’ |
| 3 | In late July and early August , he was assigned the sombre task of accompanying the body of Gerda Taro in its journey back to France . |
| 4 | Chalmers had been forced to miss the Sunday practice on account of a bruised right thigh but he was given the all clear after yesterday 's training to renew rivalries with the Welsh — the country against whom he was first capped four years ago . |
| 5 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 6 | ‘ The patient received the same amount of air as he was given the previous week . |
| 7 | Day after day , he was given the same old put-off by the stage doorman about Viola not being there . |
| 8 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 9 | He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( America 's highest civilian award ) earlier this year . |
| 10 | He was given the Distinguished Flying Cross , though his service record showed no combat missions , and he waited till 1952 to claim it . |
| 11 | Newton transformed the game after Fleck limped off following a kick up the backside and he was given the lone striker 's role . |
| 12 | In 1640 he was given the minor office of master of the Posts , but did not retain it beyond 1641 , at the end of which year he suffered a short spell of prison for alleged defiance of a parliamentary order . |
| 13 | For this reason he was given the green light to prepare more detailed proposals for further consideration . |
| 14 | In 1982 he was given the ceremonial post of vice-president . |
| 15 | Following the ratification of Yeutter 's appointment , he was given the ceremonial title of general chairman of the party . |
| 16 | Amenhotep , who had been found with a garland of flowers still round his neck , went by train , first class sleeper , where he was given the top bunk . |
| 17 | At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality . |
| 18 | It would be a travesty if he was denied the crowning glory of one more run for his maiden Test century this morning . |
| 19 | One of three suspects , Ali Vakili Rad , was arrested by Swiss police on Aug. 21 and extradited on Aug. 27 to France , where he was charged the following day with murder . |
| 20 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
| 21 | Yeah but even he was gone the other night . |
| 22 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 23 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 24 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 25 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 26 | He was replaced the following day by his close associate Banarasi Das Gupta . |
| 27 | He was replaced the following day by Hukam Singh . |
| 28 | Dave Webb 's disappointment at missing out on the Chelsea manager 's job was eased yesterday when he was named the new boss of Brentford . |
| 29 | He was discovered the next morning by a boy on his way to school . |
| 30 | Although Faulkner wanted a guarantee that the agreement was constitutionally sound , he was told the Supreme Court would decide . |