Example sentences of "[adj] he [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 2 | He was listed as Edwin Kell , boarder , aged fifteen in the 1881 Pocklington census , but when the family moved from the East Riding to Easingwold about 1888 he was passed off as George and Mary 's eldest son . |
| 3 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 4 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 5 | In 1916 he was co-opted on to the trench fever committee of the War Office , and attempted to discover the causal organism of the fever . |
| 6 | In 1942 he was picked out by Alec Harvey-Bailey ( later to become a senior Rolls-Royce figure and a good friend ) to join the defect investigation department , analysing war-service failures in Merlin , Griffon and Vulture engines . |
| 7 | She looked so comical he was taken out of himself and stepped inside with a return of confidence . |
| 8 | In 1572 he was brought in by the musician , Alfonso Ferrabosco [ q.v. ] , to design the tournament staged to greet the French embassy in June of that year . |
| 9 | At last he was packed off to sub-division : held for questioning . |