Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] he [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 2 | The plaintiff 's feelings may be wounded if he is subjected to aggressive cross-examination , especially if it is designed to support what transpires to be an unsuccessful plea of justification , so this forensic factor may be brought into account . |
| 3 | At this time , Richard Baxter rapidly fell from the favour he had recently enjoyed and he was slandered in ‘ court , city and country ’ . |
| 4 | I could tell he was angry because he was red in the face and his fists were clenched and he was swearing like a trooper . |
| 5 | So many refugees had panicked and he was lost in the throng . |
| 6 | He walked into the canal which was thinly frozen over , remaining partly immersed till he was discovered by other men on their way to the Works . |
| 7 | In 1986 Mr Leon Brittan , the Home Secretary , resigned because he was held to be responsible for the leak of a letter containing the opinions of a law officer about the actions of the Secretary for Defence , Mr Michael Heseltine . |
| 8 | Johnson was elevated into the panoply of black culture heroes and martyred after he was forced into exile in Europe for seven years from 1913 after his arrest under the Mann Act . |
| 9 | One man was evicted when he was discovered to be carrying two small cans of paint . |
| 10 | Terry 's right arm was shattered and his head and chest gashed as he was hurled like a rag doll against the Cessna 206 — flying at 7,000 feet . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend protested when he was accused of barracking by the hon. Member for Ryedale ( Mr. Greenway ) . |
| 12 | Nutmeg suddenly realised that he was looking at himself ! |
| 13 | This is a convoluted way of achieving a just result , and the law should be that the defendant should be proved to have realised that he was dealing with a policeman , or was reckless about the matter . |
| 14 | She stopped again then said wryly , ‘ When I saw you and gradually realised that he was attracted to you I naturally became jealous . ’ |
| 15 | The 62-year-old bishop later explained that he was quoting from a book called How To Be A Wally . |
| 16 | Then probably you have not heard that he was sent for last night just before Compline , to go to Donata , at her express wish . |
| 17 | I have heard that he was saddened by these writings of Fernanda Eberstadt 's , in which his own writings are faulted . |
| 18 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 19 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 20 | It was later generally accepted that he was suffering from multiple neurofibromatosis ( von Recklinghausen 's disease ) , a very rare and incurable disease characterized by the tendency to form neurofibromas ( tumours of the nerve and fibrous tissue ) . |
| 21 | The manager of the Ljubljana branch of the Belgrade Bank has revealed that he was asked by a high official of the National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina to purchase 3 billion dinars of Agrokomerc bills of exchange ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 22 | The previous week 30 of the country 's 60 examining magistrates had been dismissed , and the Attorney General of Antioquia province , the principal negotiator of the surrender of the Medellín drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar Gaviria in June [ see p. 38283 ] , had resigned after it was revealed that he was related to Gaviria . |
| 23 | Asked about apparent defections from his cause , he claimed never to have said that he was counting on anybody . |
| 24 | It was said that he was retired from the army , the navy , the civil service and the BBC . |
| 25 | Had he said that he was going to his death in Lucifer 's inferno ? |
| 26 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 27 | His eagerness to please ensured that he was put upon , and judging by the worn state of his clothes she guessed he was paid a pittance for it . |
| 28 | ‘ Tim always phoned if he was going to be late . |
| 29 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 30 | Last night police were unable to confirm whether the man had been injured before he was covered by soil . |