Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton Manning , who works for the Birmingham Evening Mail , was stopped as he put the £17,582 Rover 220 turbo through its paces . |
| 2 | Two days later , he was dismissed and as a consequence of his dismissal , his unemployment benefit was stopped and he received reduced rate income support of , I understand , £23.79 a week . |
| 3 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 4 | It was intended that he should manage his father 's sheep ranches in Australia , but in 1886 he was articled to Charles E. Davis [ q.v. ] , city architect of Bath , where he remained until 1889 . |
| 5 | It was intended that he should enter the medical profession but for financial reasons this became impossible , and when only seventeen he joined the office of the district superintendent of the line of the London and North Western Railway at Euston . |
| 6 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 7 | How could this right of election be anything other than a fiction if the breach of the term in all circumstances deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should receive ? |
| 8 | I was irritated that he could imagine I would want to go back to him . |
| 9 | I knew he was irritated and he knew I was ashamed . |
| 10 | The Portsmouth Court case was halted while he was taken to hospital where he was later said to be ‘ comfortable . ’ |
| 11 | Racing at the top sporting event was halted when he collapsed . |
| 12 | John McLeish rose to go but was recalled as he reached the door . |
| 13 | Mr Heselton , an Independent on Whitby Town Council , was dismissed after he gave a customer he knew a free bottle of barbecue fluid , valued at £1 . |
| 14 | My interest was aroused when he reasoned that it was his blackness which constituted the major drawback in his life at one level , but at another , proved an indispensable asset to his eventual success . |
| 15 | Holland 's own interest in music was aroused when he learned to play the piano as a boy . |
| 16 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 17 | It was to tell the head of state to whom he was accredited that he ought to leave the country . |
| 18 | ‘ I hear your husband was blackballed when he tried to join the Country Club . |
| 19 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Weller may not have actually been the one who shut the door but it was inferred from what was heard that he was . |
| 21 | He also reported times when a parent complained about the way their child was treated when he knew the reason before they did : |
| 22 | What happened was that it was the son and I could n't get he was given and he 's never had it in his life . |
| 23 | Well before dawn came it was clear that the wound was poisoned and he would not be able to make another hard day 's journey . |
| 24 | Well before dawn came it was clear that the wound was poisoned and he would not be able to make another hard day 's journey . |
| 25 | The controversy culminated in 1877 with Wallich 's unsuccessful demand that the Royal Society should censure his two opponents , for he felt that the Society had tacitly condoned their misdemeanours by publishing their results in its prestigious journal , from which Wallich was debarred since he was not a fellow . |
| 26 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 27 | Garland was shaken and he was still making up his mind how to react when the doorbell rang . |
| 28 | Crosby 's faith in Gray was justified when he volleyed in his early goal after keeper Lee Butler punched out Gordon Armstrong 's free kick . |
| 29 | The honourary medical officer of the Longhope lifeboat is Dr Tony , and he would normally be assisting casualties to be uplifted , but that day he himself was to be winched up from the lifeboat to the helicopter , and once that part of the exercise was completed and he was back , safely on deck , I asked him , How was that ? |
| 30 | But since he was too weak to travel , it was arranged that he would come and stay with my husband and I until he was fit enough to fly back to Jersey where he and my mother lived . |