Example sentences of "[conj] he was [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1942 he was persuaded to go into hospital , where he was said to be schizophrenic . |
| 2 | The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today . |
| 3 | He performed only 24 hours within the first 12 months of the order , and was brought before the Crown Court where he was found to be in breach of the order , which was revoked . |
| 4 | A second received burns over 60pc of his body and was taken by helicopter to hospital , where he was reported to be seriously ill . |
| 5 | Moore lured Barry to the Washington hotel room where he was arrested after being filmed purchasing and smoking crack and requesting sex with Moore . |
| 6 | That was typical of Sam : although he was acknowledged to be one of the finest seamen in the village , he was still young , and reluctant to delegate the steering to members of his crew . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't had the pathologist 's report but the indications are that he was strangled after being stunned by a blow to the head . ’ |
| 8 | It is surprising that he attended Hall 's conclave as he had a well-known dislike of competitions , but it is less surprising that he was selected to be a judge in view of his connections with two of the other judges and the probability that he would not wish to enter the competition himself . |
| 9 | Laud , who was Visitor of All Souls College , Oxford , had him made a Fellow there , overruling the objections of the Warden of the College , Gilbert Sheldon , that he was disqualified by being too young and held only a degree from Cambridge . |
| 10 | There was , though , a real danger that he was destined to be one of the game 's nearly men . |
| 11 | And that he was meant to be carried out to sea . " |
| 12 | However , concern over the accountability aspect of the appraisal led the head of department to point out that he was torn between being brutally honest and papering over the cracks . |
| 13 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |
| 14 | But she confirmed that he was expected to be at the match . |
| 15 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 16 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 17 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 18 | Bell , however , had the misfortune to be a moderate serving in a conservative administration and he was bound to be regarded with suspicion . |
| 19 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 20 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 21 | But there was somebody in in the street where I lived , who was a spiv , and he was considered to be the black sheep of the family , did n't quite fit in when everybody else did . |
| 22 | When the country was united under one king in about 3100 BC , beginning the First Dynasty , the name of the king was preceded by the title " Horus ' and he was thought to be " the living Horus ' and therefore a god on earth , From the Fourth Dynasty he added the title " Son of Re " to his names . |
| 23 | Goo-Goo 's greed was legendary , and he was reputed to be a messy eater . |
| 24 | It is the middle of the lambing season and he was meant to be lambing . |
| 25 | He passed her , and he was known for being crappy . |
| 26 | As the head of Drexel 's bond-trading department , until he was dismissed after being charged with securities fraud , Mr Milken convinced many ( mainly institutional ) investors that the higher yields on bonds that carried a below-investment-grade rating compensated for the extra risk . |
| 27 | Gob open and arms flapping , Ashcroft has the rare ability to sing about how he 's ‘ born to fly ’ while looking like he was born to be institutionalised , and make it convincing . |
| 28 | ‘ … that it would look much better if he was seen to be supporting indigenous native art as well as looking to Africa or Latin America . |
| 29 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 30 | In what must now rank as one of the most well worn cliches of modern football , Peter Marinello was dubbed ‘ The Scottish George Best ’ , and with predictable results , the machinery of pop music , fashion and advertising pursued the young Hibernian player as if he was guaranteed to be the next big thing . |