Example sentences of "[noun sg] he was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result he was appointed in 1937 to be Maltravers Pursuivant Extraordinary : he thus played an official role at the coronation of King George VI in that year . |
| 2 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |
| 3 | Mr Kallisher said Green was assisted by his knowledge as a CPS solicitor to construct his own defence and although arrested for the murder he was released on 3 November and not rearrested until 14 November , 1991 . |
| 4 | At college he was held in great affection and esteem by his fellow students . |
| 5 | For his part in the crime he was sentenced to ten years and went down with thirteen other accomplices for a total of fifty five years and £675,000 in fines . |
| 6 | He died in 1936 , and despite the Franco oppression he was venerated by many of the university staff . |
| 7 | It was a gap he was to fill with consummate skill . |
| 8 | At 21 Henry Skelton had his life before him … a brilliant artist and musician he was studying at New College , Oxford . |
| 9 | However , most of the work he was doing at this time was of a minor nature . |
| 10 | Yeah and we see a lorry with a bloke he was doing like that looking out the back and we all go Ahhhh ! |
| 11 | As compensation he was knighted in 1684 . |
| 12 | And in the faculty he was surrounded by several men of substance with much the same opinions though with less hardness in their advocacy . |
| 13 | Known throughout the Army world for his outstanding service as a chaplain in the First World War he was held in great affection and esteem . |
| 14 | A shoot-out was to be avoided at all costs , and though Weaver was certainly armed , the moment he was confronted with two heavy-duty thirty-eight calibres , the game would be up . |
| 15 | Taji Bey ( Tacizade Cafer Celebi : d. 921/1515 ) who , as a muderris , having reached the Mahmud Pasa medrese in Istanbul , the status of which is uncertain but which was at least a 40-akce medrese , left teaching to become nisanci twice , from 903/1497–8 to 917/1511 and again early in the reign of Selim I , and then Anadolu kazasker In Sha'ban 920/October 1514 , in which post he was executed on 8 Rajab 921/18 August 1515 . |
| 16 | At that point he was attacked by twelve Bf109s , but evaded and got in a good burst at one that overshot him . |
| 17 | I told him that in my opinion he was suffering from valvular disease and that there was probably considerable dilation . |
| 18 | In the course of the sequestration proceedings in the sheriff court he was sentenced to 30 days ' imprisonment for contempt of court , because he had entered the licensed premises and interfered with the management thereof after giving an undertaking that he would not do so . |
| 19 | In his day he was regarded as one of the principal authorities and his books : The Hereford Earthquake of December 17 , 1896 ( 1899 ) ; A Study of Recent Earthquakes ( 1905 ) ; The Origin of Earthquakes ( 1912 ) ; A Manual of Seismology ( 1921 ) ; A History of British Earthquakes ( 1924 ) ; The Founders of Seismology ( 1927 ) ; The Japanese Earthquakes of 1923 ( 1931 ) ; and Great Earthquakes ( 1936 ) remained useful sources of reference . |
| 20 | On the following day he was indicted on 11 counts , including murder , loan sharking , obstruction of justice and tax evasion . |
| 21 | Three months before opening day he was sentenced to 14 days in Brixton Prison for contempt of a High Court undertaking not to deal in any more counterfeit tape . |
| 22 | The next day he was examined by privy councillors and committed to the care of ( Sir ) John Fortescue [ q.v. ] for the rest of the session . |
| 23 | Chuter-Ede advocated ‘ no rocking the boat ’ ; as deputy to the President at the Board of Education he was heeded by Labour colleagues who wanted a systematic change . |
| 24 | She closed her eyes , taking an unsteady breath as she tried desperately not to recall the deeply tanned torso , the slim hips and the taut , firmly muscled thighs which lay beneath the dark Savile Row suit he was wearing with such ease and assurance . |
| 25 | He shrugged easily , his shoulders moving under the formal dark suit he was wearing to such devastating effect . |
| 26 | Payton scotched speculation he was unsettled at Ayresome Park . |
| 27 | John runs all year for fun and whilst training for this special event he was running between 5–20 miles a day . |
| 28 | At the police station he was confronted by one of the children 's angry mother . |
| 29 | Juul was undefeated by an opponent in his four scheduled rides although in heat 13 when he came out for an extra race he was disqualified for unfair riding when bringing down Donny Odom and Steve Regeling . |
| 30 | Bumbling John Major dropped one clanger after another yesterday as Britain 's economy took yet another hammering and last night he was reeling as two new opinion polls showed Labour verging ahead to a five point lead , enough to put them into Westminster with an overall majority . |