Example sentences of "[coord] he was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
| 2 | But it looked like being a long , hot drive home , and he was teaching at nine on Thursday . |
| 3 | He had a small touring company which had just suffered a couple of deaths in a carriage accident , and he was looking for two versatile and experienced ( yes ! ) players . |
| 4 | My other half ordered from a catalogue disc drives to assemble compu , er a home computer and he was looking very carefully cos computer parts can be quite expensive and he was looking at national catalogue for the best prices . |
| 5 | MacArthur was not personally much interested in economic matters and he was faced in 1947–48 with vocal pressure for a new approach to economic questions . |
| 6 | Rubio ( 1908 ) was the first American-bred horse to triumph at Aintree , and he was followed in 1909 by Lutteur III who gave the French their first success in the race . |
| 7 | He received acetylcysteine , but his condition deteriorated , showing signs of liver failure , and he was transferred to this hospital for supportive treatment . |
| 8 | Obviously John had no time to investigate the theory , and probably he would not have bothered anyway , since it looks convincing and he was given to quick enthusiasms . |
| 9 | The students were immediately with him , and he was regarded with much affection . |
| 10 | Lord Taylor said medical reports on Newton stated he had acted under acute stress while his emotional control and judgment were impaired and he was overcome by extreme anxiety and anger . |
| 11 | Witnesses reported that both he and the Bf109 he had first attacked had been seen to come down , and he was credited with one victory . |
| 12 | Merceron promptly resigned as treasurer ; but no one could be found to take his place , and he was re-elected in 1805 . |
| 13 | But do you know , me cousin Eric , who 's quite a lot older than me , was at Scarborough with me Uncle and and his mother and dad and he was only a little one and he was stood in that narrow street that goes off , off the |
| 14 | But the jury cleared Charles McGhee of nine of the ten charges of violence to prison staff , and he was sentenced to twelve months for wounding . |
| 15 | When the law finally did catch up with Capone in 1931 , it was for tax evasion , and he was sentenced to 11 years in prison . |
| 16 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 17 | She was able to repeat them at the trial of the young man — and he was sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 18 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 19 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 20 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 21 | My great-grandfather , William Bayles , was the first to occupy it and he was born in 1826 . |
| 22 | Some ten years later the main plank in the platform of Beauford Jester as candidate for State Governor was prison reform , and he was elected on that campaign issue . |
| 23 | We got used to it , and he was accepted as one of us . |
| 24 | We got talking one evening last week , and he was asking about Carinish Court . |
| 25 | And he was seized by another spasm . |
| 26 | He had been king for two and a half years , and he was aged by ten . |
| 27 | There was this veranda on the back of the caravan which Yul Brynner had got from somewhere , and he was sitting on this veranda in his black shirt , black boots and black trousers and smoking a big cigar . |
| 28 | The care and attention he received was first class throughout his stay and although he missed out on a family Christmas at home , the staff more than made up for it and he was showered with extra presents which helped to speed his recovery . |
| 29 | The only thing wrong was he was washing them with a hundred octane gasoline , he had a gasoline engine firing exhaust underneath it and he was parked among all our gas trucks . |
| 30 | She had this pervert on and he was going on all through everything you know what I mean ? |