Example sentences of "[adj] he [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the completion of this he was placed in charge in 1851–2 of the heavy engineering works on the Oxford and Wolverhampton line , including high timber viaducts and the Dudley tunnel . |
| 2 | But despite this he was placed in a cell by himself and left unchecked for long periods . |
| 3 | By this he was referring to the chief justices and three judges of the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King 's Bench and the chief baron and three barons of the Court of Exchequer , being the three courts of common law . |
| 4 | In this he was joined by Dennis Hopper , who was equally ecstatic . |
| 5 | When the Black Prince announced measures against him , Armagnac first appealed to Edward III ; on receiving an unfavourable response , he took the matter further and appealed to the king of France , Charles V. In this he was joined by his nephew , the lord of Albret , who lodged a similar grievance against the Black Prince . |
| 6 | In this he was supported by his white Cabinet and nearly all the whites of Rhodesia . |
| 7 | They were opposed by Anthony Cary , Lord Falkland , a Tory , who argued that the throne should not be filled until Parliament had decided what powers to give the Crown , so that " we may secure ourselves from Arbitrary Government " , although in this he was supported by radical Whigs such as Wildman . |
| 8 | To endorse this he was writing to a young Quaker girl in Norwich with the intention of marriage . |
| 9 | Shortly after this he was attacked by a Bf110 , but as this approached to about 100 yards it received a direct hit from an anti-aircraft shell and blew up . |
| 10 | For this he was hounded into the political wilderness ; but now it is happening . |
| 11 | Since Daniel agreed with this he was reduced to silence . |
| 12 | In the hope of forestalling this he was urged by the Japanese to retreat to his stronghold of Manchuria and establish himself as ruler of an autonomous Manchuria under Japanese tutelage . |
| 13 | Hugh Dalton , returned to parliament in 1935 , had taken a leading part in reconciling the Party to rearmament and in this he was backed by Bevin , Citrine and the TUC . |
| 14 | In this he was encouraged by the Unitarian minister Mr Tarrant and a new friend , the literary critic James Ashcroft Noble . |
| 15 | As a result of this he was labelled as a diehard and a bigot , when he actually distrusted the diehards and was himself distrusted by the bigots . |
| 16 | In this he was helped by the clergy who made voluntary contributions to the value of twelve pence in every mark , of the annual value of their benefices . |
| 17 | In 1933 he was hired by Warner Brothers to make several short comedies , but died of a heart attack after a celebration party . |
| 18 | At the end of his pupillage in 1872 he was sent to the United States to study developments in railways and steel-making , and on his return became assistant manager of the steelworks at Crewe . |
| 19 | In 1872 he was crowned at Aksum as John IV . |
| 20 | But by 1872 he was working with The Northern Echo . |
| 21 | From 1867 to 1872 he was articled to the architect Walter Scott of Liverpool . |
| 22 | He suffered , however , from severe seasickness and in 1885 he was placed on the retired list . |
| 23 | In June 1881 he was recalled to Dublin and put in charge of the RIC 's crime division , with the task of both preventing and solving politically inspired crime . |
| 24 | It gave me a great deal of pleasure to think how much more pained he was going to be in a few moments . |
| 25 | During the autumn of 1479 he was appointed in addition to the office of master of the choristers , and he continued to occupy both appointments until his departure between 1 October 1484 and 30 September 1485 . |
| 26 | On 5 January 1479 he was entered on the payroll , and on 13 February formally admitted , as a lay clerk of the choir of St George 's chapel , Windsor . |
| 27 | In return for financial help to King Afonso V he was renaturalized as a Portuguese subject in August 1479 and given trading privileges . |
| 28 | In December 1630 he was silenced by William Laud [ q.v. ] for not catechizing according to the form laid down in the Prayer Book , and for refusing to bow at the name of Jesus . |
| 29 | Like the British he was fascinated by the thought of obedience willingly given ; hence his belief that satyagraha worked because it changed the opponent 's mind about the issue at stake . |
| 30 | On 31 May 1790 he was commissioned into the 43rd Foot , but transferred into the Coldstream Guards three years later . |