Example sentences of "he was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Christmas Day he was moved out by a policeman , and that , he said , was when he lost his faith . |
| 2 | He was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter . ’ |
| 3 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 4 | Having earned a rest , he was turned out in a paddock where he had grazed regularly . |
| 5 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 6 | Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat . |
| 7 | He swivelled from joist to joist , raker to rafter , feeling horribly like a monkey and getting very cold feet in the process even though he was breaking out in a sweat at the same time . |
| 8 | In the 10th round , he was ruled out for a foul , and lost his world championship . |
| 9 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 10 | He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened . |
| 11 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 12 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 13 | He seemed to regard the New Testament as a stormy sea in which he was tossed about in a little boat as he explored . |
| 14 | Almost immediately after birth he was sent out to a wet-nurse at the nearby village of Syderstone , where he remained until he was weaned , at about 18 months . |
| 15 | It came as no surprise when he was sent off for a vicious headbutt to the hapless Hudd . |
| 16 | There was nothing sinister about this change — he had simply reverted to the name he was born under after a search to find the identity of his real parents . |
| 17 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 18 | Quite how he was supposed to stand up for himself when he was tied up in a wicker laundry basket which had been left under a running shower was another matter . |
| 19 | A man who nearly died when he was dragged along under a car for a quarter of a mile says he hopes to be leaving hospital soon . |
| 20 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 21 | He was dressed up as a pantomime character in the picture and was posing . |
| 22 | Instead , he was holding out like a carrot a heart-stopping headlong plunge into a new dimension of existence . |
| 23 | She sensed that he was holding back with a massive effort , suppressing his own hunger with iron discipline . |
| 24 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 25 | The 41-year-old victim died instantly when he was run over by a Bedford van less than a mile from his home in Witney , Oxon . |
| 26 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |
| 27 | Right-winger Alan Linton was the first casualty when he was stretchered off with a double break to a leg after 16 minutes . |
| 28 | He was a bit of a character — he 'd have to get up at about four o'clock in the morning to cycle to work , and during the war , he was hurtling along during a blackout when suddenly the road disappeared and he went careering into a bomb crater , about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep . |
| 29 | His feet hung clear of the stirrups , and he was arched over like a letter G in the saddle ; his reins had slipped down round his horse 's hoofs . |
| 30 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |