Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |
| 2 | Sukarno suffered from malaria ; in 1938 he was moved to Benkulen in Sumatra , perhaps for humanitarian reasons ( in 1936 Hatta and Sjahrir were moved from their vile jungle camp ) , or perhaps because the Dutch hoped that a more Islamic environment would complete his ‘ conversion , from politics to religion , for Islam in Sumatra was more powerful than the syncretic faith of Java . |
| 3 | I could n't tell much about him as he was covered from head to toe in red crash helmet with black visor , red riding leathers and red boots . |
| 4 | Instead royal power passed now to Alhred , a representative , according to the Anglian genealogies , of a quite separate line of descent from Ida though the way one annalist observes that Alhred was said by some to be of the lineage of Ida implies that he was regarded by others as an intruder into the kingship ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) . |
| 5 | MUSA ANTER : A Kurdish journalist , he was shot to death in Diyarbakir , south east Turkey , on 20 September 1992 ; |
| 6 | He was compensated by Britain with Iraq . |
| 7 | He was stood in front of me in the sandwich queue the other day and . |
| 8 | He was fitted in blinkers for the 1984 Gold Cup but behaved mulishly , twice trying to pull himself up before finishing a distant sixth to Burrough Hill Lad . |
| 9 | He was condemned to death in his absence ( 469 ) and arrived in Persia as late as 465 , eluding en route an Athenian fleet which was besieging Naxos . |
| 10 | John Kirwan has also changed his mind after he was heard on TVNZ after the World Cup saying that he was not prepared to play for New Zealand unless John Hart was nominated as coach . |
| 11 | He was a strict disciplinarian whose word was law and , while players could argue with his views and put their own ideas to him freely , he would tolerate no arguing with umpires ; when Sobers once disputed an lbw decision he was reprimanded in front of the team . |
| 12 | She had also been completely in love with Jamie , but of course he had rejected her ; there was no room in his life for love — not while he was consumed with hatred for his brother Charles . |
| 13 | He was consumed with desire for the possession to come and whenever he could he tried to add to the 45/ in the Post Office Savings Bank so that they could spend some time away together with Dad Uzzell . |
| 14 | Before he left he was invited to dinner at Buckingham Palace by George V and Queen Mary . |
| 15 | Furthermore , we have the unimpeachable information of his pupil Posidonius that he was invited by Scipio to be his companion on the diplomatic journey to the East about 140 B.C. ( fr. 30 Jacoby ) . |
| 16 | The charge relates to an incident in February when he was stopped by police near Middle Barton . |
| 17 | He refused to comment as he was bundled from court with his girlfriend into a waiting car . |
| 18 | He was remanded on bail for reports . |
| 19 | On 16 December 1991 the father pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm to D. and he was remanded on bail until 24 January 1992 for sentence . |
| 20 | He was remanded on bail until July 6 for reports . |
| 21 | He was remanded in custody to September 22 . |
| 22 | He was remanded in custody for six months . |
| 23 | He was remanded in custody for seven days . |
| 24 | He was remanded in custody for a week . |
| 25 | He was remanded in custody for 7 days . |
| 26 | He was remanded in custody for three and a half weeks . |
| 27 | He was remanded in custody for enquiries to be made if he could be sent to a probation hostel . |
| 28 | He was remanded in custody for a week . |
| 29 | He was remanded in custody for a week . |
| 30 | He was remanded in custody for a week . |