Example sentences of "and he [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 2 | I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones . |
| 3 | ‘ He came over and trained with us last week and he was looking fit . |
| 4 | Someone jumped on his right leg and he was kicked four or five times on the head before the three men ran away . |
| 5 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 6 | On the final lap , Mark Smyth ( O'Rourkes Coal ) opened a small gap just before the climb and he was joined first by Graham , then Alastair Martin ( Ardsike the Bike ) and Gerald Irvine ( Toyota North Down ) with Cormac McCann ( Phoenix ) the last to make a successful effort to bridge 21 the gap . |
| 7 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 8 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 9 | He was Mr Geoffrey Pattie , and he was given special responsibility for space ; numerous bullish stories appeared in the press about the likelihood of increased British space expenditure . |
| 10 | He was standing with his back to her , hands pressed flat on the kitchen table , and he was dragging deep breaths into his lungs . |
| 11 | And he was toasting this self-same happy chance in home-made elderflower wine when he first heard the chanting . |
| 12 | His legs were bare and he was wearing Indian leather sandals , the kind you had to soak in water before you first put them on . |
| 13 | The pensioner 's GP , James Harley , said he had seen Mr Topp two months before his disappearance and he was displaying early signs of dementia . |
| 14 | It was Mark Spicer , the son of the Royal Bucks secretary , and he was earning some extra money during his time off from university . |
| 15 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 16 | The boat was gone completely , and he was tossed this way and that in the water . |
| 17 | The child was born on 10 May 1977 and he was adopted two years later . |
| 18 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 19 | He wanted her , and he was getting old and silly . ’ |
| 20 | Ladbroke acquired Hilton International in 1987 and he was appointed chief executive in 1990 . |
| 21 | At about 5:45pm , the cardiac arrest team had been called , resuscitation had failed and he was confirmed dead at 6:25pm . |
| 22 | When told that his two years at sea did not count , he resignedly attended his medical only to discover that his hearing was impaired and he was declared unfit for military service . |
| 23 | After years of expensive legal fees , the court revealed that Gallacher had debts of £787 , a massive sum for the times , and he was declared bankrupt . |
| 24 | In November it was revealed a petition had been filed at Durham County Court by an unnamed creditor and he was declared bankrupt . |
| 25 | There were found footprint evidences that young Brown had crossed and recrossed Hunder Beck , that he had been at the top of the high moor , and he was traced half way back , with probably thirty-six sheep which were recovered on Sunday . |
| 26 | yeah there was an actor erm and he was playing Russian roulette with and he put it up to his temple , pulled the trigger the blank went off , bloody blew his brains in . |
| 27 | He was not permitted to call other officers of the Council in his defence and he was found guilty of 12 offences and dismissed . |
| 28 | he assaulted me a f few times and the last time he did it I involved the police and he was in court last Thursday and he was found guilty of assault . |
| 29 | He did n't return to walk and he was found dead by his mother . |
| 30 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |