Example sentences of "[adv] he was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he was surrounded by ten or a dozen street urchins in rags , imploring him to be generous . |
| 2 | Perhaps he was thinking of other things at the same time . |
| 3 | Henceforth he was known in Irish nationalist circles as ‘ Major John MacBride ’ . |
| 4 | It 's within the congregation , Paulo was writing , not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees , said you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake so he was speaking to spiritual people , spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake , awake from sleep or slumbers , for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers , and that 's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday , the time that much nearer now is n't it ? |
| 5 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 6 | Soon he was progressing from individual acts to the presentation of complete shows . |
| 7 | Meanwhile he was held for seventeen months in prison in Oxford , where a debate was staged in which Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley were pitted against selected scholars from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 8 | ‘ ( 1 ) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the Court of Appeal may , if they think it necessary or expedient in the interests of justice … ( b ) order any witness who would have been a compellable witness in the proceedings from which the appeal lies to attend for examination and be examined before the court , whether or not he was called in those proceedings ; and ( c ) subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , receive the evidence , if tendered , of any witness . |
| 9 | Yesterday he was banned for 18 months . |
| 10 | When he got home he was confronted by another older woman — his wife . |
| 11 | Just over two hours later he was killed in nearby Great Western Road . |
| 12 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 13 | Nine months later he was knighted with four other High Court judges . |
| 14 | Inevitably he was drawn into historical references in his rather fulsome descriptions of sites such as Furness Abbey . |
| 15 | He found now he was speaking to all the eagles in the Cages and that they were listening to him . |
| 16 | Now he was bitching about all matters technical . |
| 17 | And now he was going to that witch Domino . |
| 18 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 19 | Well he was seeming to six when he died . |
| 20 | Six years ago he was jailed after another accident in which his wise was killed . |
| 21 | And she still had n't got much in the way of new property to recompense her loss — yet here he was behaving in this lofty , inconsiderate way , as if she did n't count at all . |
| 22 | In common with most of his contemporaries paying such rates , he was charged twice a year from 1783 onwards at a penny a time , though even he was excused in 1784 on grounds of poverty . |
| 23 | Effectively he was immersed in Albanian politics , although in February 1921 , at the request of Sir Basil Thomson [ q.v. ] of Scotland Yard 's Special Branch , he travelled to Germany for a secret meeting with Talaat , the Turk generally held responsible for the post-war Armenian massacres . |
| 24 | Luckily he was engaged on operational matters when his ‘ guest ’ arrived , and turned him over temporarily to his intelligence officer , a flight lieutenant called Benson , who recognized the symptoms instantly and prescribed a double whisky . |
| 25 | Then he was inspired by two famous hard men , Ron Harris and Tommy Smith , who insisted that football needed ex-players as referees . |
| 26 | If Vecchi was the imitation hospital attendant , then he was booked for some free electricity at the State 's expense . |
| 27 | It is not known how he was related to former kings of Mercia , but it is possible that he represented a line claiming descent from Penda . |
| 28 | AN 84-YEAR-OLD man who braved German bombs as a fireman during World War II , told last night how he was threatened by two gun-wielding raiders . |
| 29 | Formerly Australia 's most wanted man , he walked out of Springhill Open prison near Aylesbury 7 weeks ago and has n't been seen since , giving rise to questions about how he was sent to low-security confinement in the first place . |
| 30 | This is how he was described by one of his courtiers , Walter Map : " Whatever way he goes out he is seized upon by the crowds and pulled hither and thither , pushed whither he would not and yet , surprising to say , he listens to each man with patience , and though assaulted by all with shouts and pullings and rough pushings , does not threaten anyone because of it , nor show any sign of anger ; only , when he is hustled beyond bearing , he silently retreats to some place of quiet . " |