Example sentences of "he was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved . |
| 2 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 3 | He was getting in deep now , though he was experiencing grave and gnawing doubts about the whole affair . |
| 4 | He was shot five times in a taxi cab in June , two months after being beaten by thugs with baseball bats . |
| 5 | ‘ He was shot last night when he was taking the dog for a walk . ’ |
| 6 | One day , when the lord was stepping down from his carriage , which he drove himself , he was shot dead outside his gate . |
| 7 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 8 | CENGIZ ALTUN : A journalist , he was shot dead on his way to work on 24 February 1992 , shortly after publishing an article stating that security forces had threatened to kill him ; |
| 9 | IZZET KEZER : a Turkish journalist , he was shot dead by police on 23 March while covering the disturbances in Cizre following the Kurdish New Year ; |
| 10 | Before he was murdered on 24 March 1980 , Romero made two fundamental statements : he declared that the church supported the legitimate right to insurrectional violence against a dictatorship in August 1979 and , only a day before he was shot dead while holding a mass in San Salvador , he called on members of the army and security forces to refrain from shooting if it ran contrary to their conscience . |
| 11 | He also claimed that an attempt had been made to kill his son at the same site in Castlerock , where he was shot dead a week later . |
| 12 | David Gray , 33 , a local man believed to be suffering from depression , began shooting on the evening of Nov. 13 , and continued until he was shot dead by police 24 hours later . |
| 13 | He was shot dead in sight of hundreds of diners at kerbside restaurants in Calvi on the night of Aug. 21 . |
| 14 | The following evening he was shot dead while walking his dog along the wharf here . |
| 15 | Last month , Moscow Mafia chieftain Valery Dlugach , nicknamed Globus , was leaving LIS 'S at 3 am when he was shot dead with a Simonov sniper rifle from a rooftop opposite . |
| 16 | He said if the , if he , he was shot dead at a Belfast video shop , he said if this was happening in England or on the streets of London the response of the government would be totally different well it has happened in London . |
| 17 | It was claimed that in developing an aggressive new foreign policy , he was disregarding nationalist dreams of recovering control of the mainland . |
| 18 | He was facing stormy Commons scenes this afternoon as he came under more pressure during Prime Minister 's question time . |
| 19 | He suddenly felt he was facing impossible odds . |
| 20 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 21 | He was whistling that stupid little old song of his about the man who was scared to go home in the dark . ’ |
| 22 | He was taping this . |
| 23 | It was just that it was intriguingly difficult to tell if he was issuing blunt ultimatums to a financial contact , or responding to some emotional problem at the other end of the line … |
| 24 | Frightened by the threat of invasion ( Fears in Solitude ) , he was beginning that slide or jump to the Right which angered and puzzled his liberal associates , though it is fair to say that his revolutionary sympathies , unlike Wordsworth 's , had never been more than superficial . |
| 25 | Whether it was because he was a lousy burglar or because he was wasting valuable brain-damaging time , I could n't tell . |
| 26 | This was an action that he was to repeat many times before any true subjugation of the Saxons was achieved . |
| 27 | That is to say that although he was clearly not endorsing a militaristic brand of Rambo-style Christianity — say , fighting modern crusades against Muslims , or shooting atheists — he was insisting that to be a Christian meant to be a person engaged in the Great Battle . |
| 28 | After the first sip he was wishing some awful fate on every Lioniser in the world . |
| 29 | Your mum said he was eating enough |
| 30 | Often when talking with the girls she had noticed that whenever Moran entered the room silence and deadness would fall on them ; and if he was eating alone or working in the room setting the teeth of a saw , putting a handle in a broken spade on a wet day , taking apart the lighting plant that never seemed to run properly for long — they always tried to slip away . |