Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dommer had been following the exchange from his bunk , where he was obsessively stripping and reassembling his flamer . |
| 2 | It was from the caravan that he ran People Against Nuclear Power , with its acronym PANUP , the small organization of which he was both founder and president . |
| 3 | In addition , entries in his diary indicate that he was both copying and selling these films . |
| 4 | He was both angered and grieved that he did not know Liza 's whereabouts , nor the sex of her offspring . |
| 5 | He let Mac have his Celtic whims , everyone did ; he was vastly experienced and had been right so often . |
| 6 | He told her how much he had missed her while he was away skiing and then asked her simply to marry him . |
| 7 | Consequently , he was officially denounced and stripped of his rank , pension and medals for " discrediting the honour and dignity of a state security officer " , and threatened with criminal charges . |
| 8 | On 8 January 1959 he was officially inaugurated and two days later formed the first government of the new republic , headed by Michel Debré . |
| 9 | In a rough kind of way he was good-looking , but he was heavily built and looked an aggressive type . |
| 10 | He was evidently moved and nervous . |
| 11 | Harry began shouting , which was not at all surprising , as he was easily provoked and was being made to look a fool . |
| 12 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 13 | He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 14 | and then while he was upstairs seeing and helping his wife , then the the stove blew up downstairs , now that might have been the house saving from a real disaster whilst attacking his wife in a minor way , or it might have been pure coincidence . |
| 15 | But he was undeniably withdrawn and pensive . |
| 16 | He paid calls to La Vieille Cité , famed for its antiquities , where he was politely entertained and actually bought a little Renaissance bronze relief , but no one had heard of a cross coming on the market in recent years . |
| 17 | I was quite surprised to see he was wide eyed and quite awake when when he came to my flat . |
| 18 | Police launched a nationwide hunt for Ahrjinder Singh Dosanjh — known as Bobby — after he was viciously beaten and bundled into a van . |
| 19 | Mann , though in possession of an official permit to hold meetings on trade unionism in Hamburg , was nevertheless put on a boat back to England ; on returning six weeks later , he was again expelled and various activists served short periods in prison . |
| 20 | He was already shaved and dressed . |
| 21 | ‘ He was later cautioned and released without charge , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 22 | He was partly irritated and partly mystified . |
| 23 | In his lifetime he was widely loved and admired as ‘ the seraphic Ken ’ even by those who deplored his political stance . |
| 24 | As club manager , however , he was widely travelled and widely respected on the Continent , spreading the name and prestige of Arsenal in his imperialist fashion . |
| 25 | As we know er Darwin published his great work in eighteen fifty nine cos he had to , he really did n't want to but was forced , but in eighteen seventy one he published another important book called the Descent of Man or Evolution in Relation to Sex and in this book Darwin established a principle , which a which at the time he was widely criticized and ridiculed and this was the principle of female choice . |
| 26 | He was immediately arrested and charged with tending or intending to pervert justice , which he denies . |
| 27 | He was immediately seized and thrown into prison , where he remained in chains for a further seventeen years , finally falling sick and dying before a suddenly contrite Alfonso could order his chains removed . |
| 28 | He was nearly scalped and broke his arm and collarbone when he smashed against it . |
| 29 | He was exceptionally demanding and my fairly long conversation was that he almost lead me to believe that he had got the job because when he started making comments about putting his grandfather clocks in the church er thirty of them . |
| 30 | ‘ He was strong willed and always trying to assert his opinions . ’ |