Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 2 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 3 | Because Sheriff Hamilton is a floating sheriff , the case had to be put back several times to allow him to pass sentence when he was next at Hamilton . |
| 4 | ( 23 ) above expresses a favourable reaction to the fact that the speaker happened to find friendship where he was not seeking it . |
| 5 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
| 6 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 7 | One man may believe he entered marriage because he was lonely , another because he was in love , a third because it was the ‘ thing to do ’ and a fourth because he wished to produce offspring . |
| 8 | The police had realised how serious the incident could be , and managed to find Robert before he was physically harmed . |
| 9 | Livingston dismissed speculation that he was following his idol Ben Johnson all the way to taking drugs . |
| 10 | ULSTER Unionist councillor John Adams today dampened speculation that he was in line to be Londonderry 's next deputy mayor . |
| 11 | Frame 's mother had committed suicide when he was nine , the court heard . |
| 12 | Rob and Chris , in town for a Tall Persons Club gathering , wanted to meet Bill because he was the sort of guy they could look up to . |
| 13 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 14 | This was just one of the many ways in which LASMO helped Mujadid while he was in London . |
| 15 | ‘ Just a moment , ’ said the Leader , checking Crane as he was about to speak once more . |
| 16 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 17 | Within a year he had so impressed Telford that he was invited to become his assistant in London , where he spent the next three years , until his father 's illness in the summer of 1824 prompted Telford to send him back to Inverness ; two months later his father died . |
| 18 | The chief agent asked Grunte whether he was prepared to vouch for a Mr David Swan , who claimed to be a member of his local Party . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister told parliament that he was against freezing savings accounts or monetary reform which would devalue the internal rouble and cut the value of individuals ' savings . |
| 20 | What else could the King have meant when he told MacDonald that he was ‘ the only person who could carry the country through ’ and that he , the King , would strongly advise the leaders of the other parties to support him ? |
| 21 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 22 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 23 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 24 | In early 1922 Eliot told Pound that he was trying to read Aristophanes , apparently on Pound 's recommendation . |
| 25 | Orton told Ken that he was totally anonymous in his affairs . |
| 26 | He was made editor when he was 26 . |
| 27 | Like , I did n't know whether to believe him or not , but you 'd feel wick if he was n't spoofing , so I let him off with a caution . |
| 28 | Another inveterate opponent , William Smeal , still secretary of the Glasgow Emancipation Society , told Chamerovzow that he was willing to organise a meeting in Edinburgh during a peace convention to discuss a movement towards unity in antislavery ranks . |
| 29 | actually no that was the night she was really pissed off because erm people were paying more attention to me than they were to her , I do n't know why , it 's because I decide that I 'm gon na be really outgoing and I really do and I was really loud and really boisterous and she 's quite resigned like that and she thought I sh bit shagged off with me and then like I was doing , there was this really good looking bloke and he was like we , we 'd given each other eyes over the bar in this pub and Lottie goes well if you do n't hurry up with him I 'm gon na go and have him , if you do n't hurry up , you know , and just like marched over I said Charlotte give me a break |
| 30 | Shortly after he started at the restaurant he told Wayne that he was moving to Mrs O'Neill 's boarding house on the corner of Main Street and Railway Avenue . |