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 | Yesterday he was banned for 18 months . |
| 9 | When he got home he was confronted by another older woman — his wife . |
| 10 | Just over two hours later he was killed in nearby Great Western Road . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Nine months later he was knighted with four other High Court judges . |
| 13 | Inevitably he was drawn into historical references in his rather fulsome descriptions of sites such as Furness Abbey . |
| 14 | He found now he was speaking to all the eagles in the Cages and that they were listening to him . |
| 15 | Now he was bitching about all matters technical . |
| 16 | And now he was going to that witch Domino . |
| 17 | Well he was seeming to six when he died . |
| 18 | Six years ago he was jailed after another accident in which his wise was killed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Then he was inspired by two famous hard men , Ron Harris and Tommy Smith , who insisted that football needed ex-players as referees . |
| 24 | If Vecchi was the imitation hospital attendant , then he was booked for some free electricity at the State 's expense . |
| 25 | ( Indeed he was pardoned under that name , and the discovery that it was a false one provided an additional pretext for its revocation . ) |
| 26 | Maybe he was suffering from premature senile dementia ? |
| 27 | But instead he was sent on this unique course . |
| 28 | Yet he was mistrusted by many . |
| 29 | Subsequently he was persuaded by liberal bribes to reverse his judgement . |
| 30 | Soon afterwards he was accused of wanton conduct with three members of the Devonshire Square congregation . |