Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Sherwin added : ‘ You can infer from these circumstances and the large amount of cash he had on him that he was intending to be selling those tabs that night . ’ |
| 2 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 3 | It was now painfully obvious to him that he was dealing with a very fragile mental state , and he did n't want to be responsible for setting it off balance irreparably . |
| 4 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 5 | The pupils had been going on at me about ‘ You 're always picking on me ’ ' and then finally the boy said to him that he was picking on him because he was black and he said ‘ That just triggered it off ’ . |
| 6 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 7 | The reporter , Mick Brown , followed this story with exemplary tact , or , put it another way , as if it had never struck him that he was talking to loonies . |
| 8 | The next day Muldoon told him that he was returning to the States at the end of the month to take his enforced early retirement , after a short holiday on the Hamble . |
| 9 | I had told him that I was going to Bulith Wells , near where my parents lived , and he had agreed to drop me there . |
| 10 | Luke stood outside his own front door and read the note that Susan had left under the door-knocker , telling him that she was staying at the Palings Hotel . |
| 11 | ‘ I have a business engagement , ’ she excused , and wondered for a moment if Lubor had guessed that her business engagement for that evening was with his employer , or if perhaps he already knew from some office discussion with him that she was dining with Ven ? |
| 12 | She suddenly realised how tired she was , but she made an effort and told him that she was travelling to Rome to join her aunt and uncle . |
| 13 | Fernando loved her and she loved him and they were meant to be together . |
| 14 | It came from his left , near by , and he looked there and found that Slorne was just the other side of the bars from him and she was looking at him . |
| 15 | When we got there one o one of the other boys was was already there with him and he was covered from about his waist down with coal and er we uncovered him and gave him as comfortable as we could get him until we got the stretchers and everything mobilize him and get him out . |
| 16 | Cos one day we found him and he was choking to death practically and erm er Tam , Linda 's husband turned him upside down and smacked his back , he 'd eaten a one pound coin . |
| 17 | Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 . |
| 18 | He said Spanswick 's wife had left him and he was suffering from a depressive illness . |
| 19 | A few days later he begged for the offices held by his father and complained that it would be a great disgrace to him if they were granted to anyone else . |
| 20 | I asked him if he was going on his boat and he said no . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I did n't see him until he was standing beside me . |
| 22 | I do n't know how long I remained staring at him but I was disturbed by the noise of voices in the waiting-room . |
| 23 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 24 | And for an Englishman observing Chinese manners , the exact significance of this gesture would be lost on him unless he was acquainted with the system as a whole . |
| 25 | Constance had clearly come to hate Jean de Grilly , whom she described as ‘ so openly contrary and suspect to her , favouring her enemies ’ , that she refused to stand judgement before him unless he was accompanied by the bishop of Aire and abbot of St Maurin in the Agenais . |
| 26 | Even complete outsiders such as Pat Robertson , an evangelical minister with no security clearance , were asked by North to pray for him because he was going to Beirut to get the hostages out . |
| 27 | She had a few words with him while I was speaking to Meryl Armitage — a delightful girl . ’ |
| 28 | The killers apparently knew this and shot him while he was travelling between the two sites without a police escort . |
| 29 | Would he have listened to her then , if she had not flung that furious retort at him before they were confronted by Ralf ? |
| 30 | Bungling bosses at the NHS-run Forest Healthcare Trust , which controls seven north London hospitals , charged him after he was taken to Whipps Cross Hospital . |