Example sentences of "[subord] he was [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travis asked from the fire , where he was setting up a pan of water . |
| 2 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 3 | Swift introduced Diaper to his circle where he was taken up by Henry St John , first Viscount Bolingbroke , and Sir William Wyndham [ qq.v . ] . |
| 4 | One morning Nutmeg awoke in his basket , where he was curled up tightly . |
| 5 | She also recalled the time Tippett had ‘ flu and stayed at their home where he was nursed back to good health . |
| 6 | So Lewis drove down to the bottom of South Parks Road , where he was ushered through into the University Parks by a policeman on duty at the entrance to the single-track road which led down to the bathing area . |
| 7 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 8 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 9 | it looks like he 's learnt from the Arse match where he was hauled back for 5 yards by Campbell before they scored their 2nd . |
| 10 | On instructions from the Corporals , we stripped him naked and made him run across to the horse trough where he was thrown in . |
| 11 | Mike Fitzpatrick capsized 2 minutes before the start but managed to right himself in such a position that he was first away on the gun although he was to drop back to 30th . |
| 12 | And although he was brought up in the Protestant culture of Scotland 's capital , he is a fervent supporter of Celtic , the club of Roman Catholic persuasion in the hostile territory of Glasgow . |
| 13 | No sooner had Franz Pfeffer returned home to Germany after a stint as his country 's ambassador to France , than he was sent back again . |
| 14 | No sooner had she sunk down on one of the chesterfields than he was hunkering down in front of her , lifting her injured foot to rest on his knee , removing the shoe and gently touching the nylon-covered flesh beneath the delicate ankle-bone . |
| 15 | When I was 12 , my great hero was Van Cliburn because he 'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition , so he was invited over and played on my spinet . ’ |
| 16 | But opportunities for races on grass on the East coast were limited , so he was flown out to California to join Ron McAnally , in whose charge he won a division of the $40,000 Henry P. Russell Handicap . |
| 17 | They said they would follow later , perhaps , once he was set up in America . |
| 18 | Reeve provided the only resistance until he was run out . |
| 19 | It was thus a revolution in British fiscal policy which Chamberlain advocated in the name of Empire ; and from his Birmingham speech in May 1903 until he was struck down three years later his advocacy of tariff reform and his Imperial theme dominated British policies . |
| 20 | Austin McHale , Fisher 's main challenger for the Tarmac crown until he was forced out of the Ulster Rally , hinted that he might not appear again this season and , of course , is not listed among the entries for the Manx International in 10 days time . |
| 21 | Mr Hyslop had had little idea how badly he was injured until he was heading back to the station in the van . |
| 22 | Thakin Thein Pe made his way out to India where he received scant encouragement until he was taken up by the cloak-and-dagger organisation , Force 136 , which was desperately trying to justify its mysterious and expensive existence . |
| 23 | Until he was taken up by the Princesse Mathilde . |
| 24 | But a spokesman said : ‘ She should have stayed with her child until he was booked in . ’ |
| 25 | Having designed the Commodore International Ltd PET Personal Electronic Transactor , and moved on to found Sirius Inc , later Victor Technologies Inc until he was caught out when the world discovered that ‘ runs MS-DOS ’ did n't mean ‘ IBM-compatible ’ , Chuck Peddle hopes that he 'll soon be back with a bang . |
| 26 | Returning to his cab , he reversed in until he was backed up to a smaller , mustard-coloured van in the adjoining space behind . |
| 27 | a Scottish sailor marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 until he was picked up by Captain Woodes Rogers 52 months later ; Woodes 's account of him gave Defoe the idea of Robinson Crusoe , and Cowper wrote a poem entitled ‘ Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk ’ , beginning ‘ I am monarch of all I survey ’ . |
| 28 | I then circled over Thacker until he was picked up . ’ |
| 29 | He shrugs like he was putting on a jacket . |
| 30 | He 'd get very wild those times , like he was making up for something . |