Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were inclined to decide against Elmer , he would worry whether this decision is consistent with the position statutes occupy in our general scheme of jurisprudence , as he understands this . |
| 2 | He was first registered at birth as ‘ Herbert ’ . |
| 3 | ON SEPTEMBER 5 — a week before he was first seen on campus — Marc Lepine acquired a firearms certificate from the Sûreté du Quebec . |
| 4 | He was first put in charge of the tunnels and other works between Bristol and Bath , as well as being responsible for the manufacture of coke at the company 's Bristol works , where he initiated several important improvements . |
| 5 | Perhaps he had been told when he was first taken to Court . |
| 6 | When , eventually , Lear was forced through ill health and exhaustion to exchange England and ‘ the old Enemy , lithography ’ for a life of watercolour painting in Rome , he was desperate to keep in touch with old acquaintances . |
| 7 | He was due to remain as leader of the party until a successor was chosen at a leadership convention in Calgary on June 23 , 1990 . |
| 8 | After several years as a regular contributor and recipient of the irascible Mahor 's voluminous correspondence , he was due to succeed as editor of Cricket Quarterly in 1970 , and was foiled by a change of mind : ‘ he decided that it was too personal a project , and he could n't let anyone else take it on , ’ he remembers . |
| 9 | THE 24-year-old Donegal man who underwent a kidney transplant after being whisked off to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin minutes before he was due to go on stage at the City of Derry Drama Festival was today said to be ‘ doing very well . ’ |
| 10 | The question of whether he was negligent remained for trial if disputed by the barrister . |
| 11 | He was obliged to return to earth , however , by signs of excitement at the ramparts , which doubtless heralded another attack … and by the Padre who had asked him a question and was waiting with signs of impatience for his reply . |
| 12 | As it was , he was obliged to behave with decorum . |
| 13 | Before a BBC Radio Cleveland debate yesterday , he was obliged to explain off air that because of an undemocratic stomach bug he might suddenly have to leave in the middle of the proceedings . |
| 14 | Nothing is known of his education or early years beyond the fact that from 1815 to 1817 he served as an ensign in the 27th Foot and subsequently in the 91st Foot , from which he was obliged to retire on account of ill health in 1821 . |
| 15 | McLeish looked thoughtfully at Jennifer Morgan who had come in and was considering her father with what he was startled to recognize as dislike . |
| 16 | He blurted out that he was unable to speak for pain , so his defence was never heard . |
| 17 | He was prepared to bargain about money , but not about power . |
| 18 | ‘ Ten minutes , ’ she told him , when he was ready to go into Room C. She went back to the visitors ' room to open the window . |
| 19 | God , but she knew how he liked to be pleasured , taking care not to stale his nerves with repetition , but cajoling his juice into cells already brimming , until he was ready to come in blood , and be murdered by her work , willingly . |
| 20 | However , the facts of this case do illustrate the injustice which could arise if Miss Marshall is correct in the admirable submissions which she has advanced on behalf of the landlord , to the effect that in this case he was entitled to resort to self-help . |
| 21 | Silkin replied that it was a factor which he was entitled to take into account . |
| 22 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 23 | Within one week of starting penicillin treatment the ringing had gone and he was able to return to work . |
| 24 | He was able to plan with precision and enthusiasm the date of his own retirement , to look forward to it because it was in no way forced upon him , and to believe that he would be remembered with affection and regret . |
| 25 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 26 | Third , when Franco dispensed with the services of the pro-Axis Serrano Suñer at the end of summer 1942 , it was an indication that he felt very self-confident and that , consequently , he was unlikely to yield to pressure to withdraw . |
| 27 | If he was willing to part with stock as well , the market-maker would quote a two-way price . |
| 28 | Although Ian Paisley had unfailing faith in his own leadership qualities — a faith that was shared by his supporters — he was willing to work in coalition with the other unionist leaders , and the continued divisions within the unionist camp can not be laid entirely at his door . |
| 29 | ‘ We are particularly worried about his safety because he was mistreated when he was last held for questioning , ’ journalists told Rabin . |
| 30 | Now , being a shepherd , he was accustomed to doze at noontime , and so he fell asleep , and his hand relaxed on the rein . |