Example sentences of "[pron] he was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told himself he was behaving like a fool , that his suspicions were groundless , but he did n't believe what he told himself any more . |
| 2 | Being an occasional reviewer himself he was praised by other reviewers who were also creative writers on the old ‘ you scratch me ’ principle . |
| 3 | A short time before his death Harry Chapman had left his Hampshire rest home to stay at Herbert 's home in Oakwood , Leeds , and the care with which he was attended in his last days showed his elder brother 's family loyalty and devotion . |
| 4 | The driver of the dust-cart , the driver of the bus , and the husband were all held to have been negligent , the husband because of the dangerous manner in which he was riding on the dust-cart . |
| 5 | McKenzie looked as if he might have done enough to retain his crown after coming back from a ninth-round crisis in which he was floored by a two-punch combination to the body . |
| 6 | Thus , the Dundee tribunal has decided in the unreported case of Cox v Dundee Corporation ( 1974 ) that a man dismissed following a conviction in the Burgh Court for breach of the peace , for which he was sentenced to thirty days , had been treated unfairly . |
| 7 | In spite of his asthma and short-sightedness , Hornung was a competent club cricketer , a game for which he had a passion ; he was proud of his membership of the MCC , to which he was elected in 1907 . |
| 8 | He also contributed several important articles to the Journal of the London Topographical Society , of which he was one of the earliest members and to the council of which he was elected in 1902 . |
| 9 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 10 | He had a new dream , now , in which he was chased by something or someone down the long , windowless corridors of an institutional building . |
| 11 | It was the first acting venture in which he was called upon to perform a love scene . |
| 12 | The story the DTI report tells is of a highly successful small businessman who found himself out of his depth in the big league into which he was propelled by the Manpower acquisition . |
| 13 | In addition to showing the name and address of every member and the date on which he was registered as a member or ceased to be a member , in the case of a company with a share capital the register must also state the number and class of shares ( or amount of stock ) held by him and the amount paid-up on each share . |
| 14 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 15 | Though primarily a commentary on Henry II 's government in England , the Policraticus used the terms of Roman law , princeps for ruler and provincia , province , for the area of his rule ; these suggest that John also intended his book to be relevant to France , the land in which he had been educated and to which he was to return as bishop of Chartres . |
| 16 | Tony Crosland had been a don at Oxford during my undergraduate years , and then spent five years in the House of Commons , to which he was to return in 1959 . |
| 17 | Oral tradition affirms that the Camerons as well as the Stewarts of Appin were actively countenancing two , if not three , attempts on Glenure 's life on 14 May 1752 , the day on which he was shot in the back by a killer who escaped unrecognized . |
| 18 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |
| 19 | His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself . |
| 20 | Compared with the Derbyshire mill of Elias Needham to which he was moved in 1803 , this was a good mill . |
| 21 | He thereafter committed a large number of summary offences and two either way offences , of which he was convicted by a magistrates ' court . |
| 22 | In the wake of his book Milner received several of his most important commissions : the grounds of Wembley Park , for the tower proposed by Sir Edward Watkin [ q.v. ] in 1891 ; the enlargement of Princes Street Gardens , Edinburgh ( 1891 ) ; Gatton Park , Surrey , for ( Sir ) Jeremiah Colman ; Friar Park , Oxfordshire , for Sir Frank Crisp ; Gisselfeld , Denmark ( 1896–8 ) ; and various works on the Swedish royal gardens , for which he was invested with the award of the North Star in 1899 . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the company was called upon often without a word of preparation — to treat on a subject with which he was presumed to be familiar , and so to express himself that what he said could be discussed afterwards . |
| 24 | Bath Street , which he was building in the old centre after 1791 , is probably his finest work , with sweeping quadrant arms and a covered promenade of Ionic columns . |
| 25 | Anthony Powell has recalled Eliot with the Mirrlees at the end of the period in which he was staying with them . |
| 26 | After completing his PhD in ornithology at the University of Moscow in 1966 , he published the Birds of Vietnam , for which he was honoured by his university with first prize for conservation achievement in 1982 . |
| 27 | In 1894 Marks was appointed consulting engineer to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and he built another cliff railway in Budapest , for which he was rewarded with a knighthood of the Ducal Order of Ernest . |
| 28 | Henry VIII was horrified by what he understood of Luther 's theology , and , in an attempt to rebut it during the early 1520s , he wrote with the help of a number of court scholars the theological tract The Assertion of the Seven Sacraments , for which he was rewarded by the pope with the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ . |
| 29 | In 1154 he accompanied Henry to England for his coronation , after which he was rewarded by the gift of the valuable chapelry of Bosham in Sussex and the title of chief justiciar for Normandy . |
| 30 | He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp . |