Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 72,000 crowd were told it was off five minutes before he was due on stage . |
| 2 | It played a very , very important part in David 's career , because it was for that film that he wrote ‘ Space Oddity'/ Most of the stuff on the film came from the Deram label but I thought we ought to have a very special piece of material — some new material — and something that would show how very fine and inventive a writer David was . |
| 3 | This is very clever of Brutus , saying that he loved Caesar more than anybody , and it was for this love that he killed him , to prevent him from the trouble brewing ahead for him . |
| 4 | What he wanted to do was to publicize erm the whole issue , and it was for this purpose that he joined in these campaigns . |
| 5 | It was for this reason that he felt compelled to offer the Liberals the alternative vote , an electoral system which would have the effect of entrenching the third party as part of the political system . |
| 6 | It was for this reason that he concluded that different cells receive different genes . |
| 7 | It was for these qualities that he was so widely and profoundly respected and liked by the many many people whose love and sympathy will I am sure prove to you now an enormous uplift and support . |
| 8 | After this comprehensive study of every aspect of horticulture , Miller came to the conclusion that his preference was for ornamental gardening and he established his own nursery in St George 's Fields , Southwark , later the site of King 's Bench Prison . |
| 9 | Of course Oswald Mosley , our own exponent of Fascism , went a bit far in that direction , but he was worth some support if he stuck to the Mile End Road and did n't provoke clashes in such cherished halls of entertainment as Olympia and the Albert Hall . |
| 10 | It was during this interval that he drew several versions of a famous picture of the Hague period , entitled Sorrow . |
| 11 | The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar . |
| 12 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 13 | Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim . |
| 14 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 15 | It was during this time that he studied the Saxon language and the Anglo Saxon laws . |
| 16 | After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished . |
| 17 | It was during this period that he formed a mixed media trio called Feathers comprising himself , Hermione and John Hutchinson who came from Hull . |
| 18 | It was during this period that he conceived the idea of an airline devoted to small package shipments . |
| 19 | And it was during this period that he published , in fair French , his monograph on artificial daylight ( Lettre sur les moyens de produire , la nuit , une lumière pareille à celle du jour , 1785 ) and his second essay on light and vision ( Théorie de la lumière , applicable aux arts , et principalement à la peinture , 1786 ) . |
| 20 | It was during this period that he took into his service Perkin Warbeck [ q.v. ] , who later claimed to be Edward IV 's son , Richard , Duke of York [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | This was the closest he would come to that association of the best " minds " sharing certain fundamental ideals which had been a preoccupation of his since the early Twenties ; and indeed it was through such encounters that he began to formulate the ideas which he was to express in The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards The Definition of Culture . |
| 22 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 23 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
| 24 | It was after this attack that he commenced to dive ( Red 2 then carried out at [ sic ] attack ) . |
| 25 | It was against this background that he fell seriously ill in 1881 during the writing of A Laodicean , and after ten years of moving between London and small Dorset towns such as Swanage and Sturminster Newton came to see the solution to all his problems in a final return to Dorchester . |
| 26 | It was near twenty years since he had been here , and he had never , to his knowledge , so much as set eyes on any member of the surviving household . |
| 27 | At all times generous in giving help and wise counsel when sought , it was with great modesty that he proffered opinion or advice . |
| 28 | It was with immense relief that he drove in and killed the engine . |
| 29 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 30 | It was with some relief that he found a village which actually admitted it was called Short Soham . |