Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as well , had a little do with a little boy called Shane , he decided he wanted to come into the story with a , in his blue car , I explained that on the day of the choose he could either come in and have a story or he was to play with the blue car outside , well he had a fit , he 's rattling the door , anyway , I did n't realize there was this childminder that he had with him not er his mum , cos she came and had her sort of say and things |
| 2 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 3 | I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills . |
| 4 | They left , somewhat sheepishly , and followed Finnan into a tiny , grubby kitchen where he was setting a water-filled pot over the fire . |
| 5 | Pringle , who wore a green sweatshirt , was visibly scarred on the left of his mouth where he was hit by a bullet fired by a police marksman . |
| 6 | During his tours of the Middle and Far East Duncan Sandys was made well aware by British Governors , High Commissioners and Commanders-in-Chief of the political and military risks that he was taking ; and local political leaders , like the Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaya and Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore , warned him of the dangers of creating power vacuums that could be exploited by the Communist powers . |
| 7 | This was an action that he was to repeat many times before any true subjugation of the Saxons was achieved . |
| 8 | A spokesman said Mr Wood had opened negotiations with Standard Chartered , a London-based overseas bank , as far back as January , but only told Mr Buxton that he was leaving last Monday . |
| 9 | He shot a 69 , three-under-par , and although it was n't leading , it did n't change my thinking that he was going to be there at the finish . |
| 10 | ‘ And in this case , ’ said Dr Barton , ‘ you struck a man with such force that he was killed . ’ |
| 11 | In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months . |
| 12 | Trent shouted with all his force that he was going about . |
| 13 | In other words , what would appear to be required is some awareness on the part of the defendant that he was making the task of the police a more difficult one , and this element may have been lacking in Willmott v. Atack , which would explain why the appeal was allowed . |
| 14 | They included a vase of official-looking roses , scentless but florid , through whose funereal and unnatural blooms Commander Adam Dalgliesh glimpsed a face so immobile , upturned eyes fixed on the ceiling , that he was momentarily startled by the illusion that he was visiting the dead . |
| 15 | The Don/R spread his legs so he was holding the bike up , then he rapped on the back door of the Transit with a gauntleted hand . |
| 16 | The prosecution 's case had turned primarily on the allegation that he was drunk when his ship ran aground . |
| 17 | Tell the President that you have read about Abd Al-Ru'uf 's allegation that he was tortured , and about his lawyer 's complaint . |
| 18 | Angry deputies of the parliament , the Supreme Soviet , voted 125-16 to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the president 's announcement on Saturday that he was assuming special powers to force through a referendum on who rules Russia . |
| 19 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 20 | John Galt 's position with the Canada Company was undermined by jealous rivals and land speculators , who made allegations of irregularities in his accounts , with the result that he was recalled to London and dismissed . |
| 21 | In January 1988 Leeds crown court excluded statements by the accused with the result that he was acquitted of the murder of a police sergeant and the attempted murder of a constable . |
| 22 | She could see in his eyes that he was thinking the same , as in a flat tone he told her , ‘ Point taken . |
| 23 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 24 | ‘ Normally , when I hit anybody with that punch they do n't get up , but as Ruddock was getting to his feet I just kept watching him and I could tell by his eyes that he was hurting bad . |
| 25 | I could see in his eyes that he was wondering why he had been advised to consult such a lunatic . |
| 26 | The central figure Source A whose ‘ evidence ’ Channel 4 relied on to make their programme has already admitted to RUC detectives and journalists that he was coached to read a script containing the allegations before Channel 4 cameras in a London flat . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | By Easter week it was clear to Richard that he was making no headway against a well-conducted defence and that in terms of political psychology it was risky to stake his reputation on one big success . |
| 29 | It had crossed her mind that he was using her , but was n't she using him ? |
| 30 | There was no doubt in her mind that he was doing this deliberately and it drove her to forcefulness . |