Example sentences of "he was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was made so hastily that not even the government 's advisory committee on waste management was consulted ; one member of the committee , Professor John Greenings , said he was considering resigning in protest . |
| 2 | He was considering taking off the play . |
| 3 | Mansell last night admitted he was considering driving in the infamous Indy sports car series in the USA — despite fears about safety . |
| 4 | We had several pieces of rolling stock stored at Councillor Jim McBriar 's farm , and as he was considering selling the land on which they were sitting , we were asked to remove them as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | The owner wished to find out whether such a relationship could be formulated and used to predict sales in other shops which he was considering adding to his chain . |
| 6 | He was considering taking orders , but soon became dispirited by the contrast between the stuffy cant of Wigan 's vicarage and the godless poverty of his parish . |
| 7 | He told the assistant that he was considering buying an electronic typewriter . |
| 8 | John Barratt , for that was his name , paid an investigatory visit to Coniston Mines , was impressed with what he found , and wrote on the 4th August 1823 to Lady le Fleming to say that he was considering taking the mine . |
| 9 | With his popularity falling in the opinion polls , and the prospect of much of his planned legislative programme becoming paralysed by the Diet 's preoccupation with the two scandals , Miyazawa even hinted that he was considering calling an early general election . |
| 10 | By Thursday he was considering aborting the venture altogether and returning to Hobart . |
| 11 | Mr Recorder Paul Worsley adjourned the case until Friday for social inquiry reports to be prepared because he was considering locking Largue up as a warning to other young drivers . |
| 12 | He was aged fifteen at the time ; seven years later his dream came true . |
| 13 | He informed me that mentally he was aged sixty and I was a mere twenty . |
| 14 | , Robert ( 1534/5–1614 ) , was a master mason and architect , Neither the date nor place of his birth are known , but , according to his memorial tablet in the parish church at Wollaton , Nottinghamshire , he was aged seventy-nine when he died in 1614 . |
| 15 | His sudden death occurred at his home , 10 Park Road , Haverstock Hill , 13 January 1865 , when he was aged forty-one . |
| 16 | His father died when he was aged three , and the family , then living in Manchester , returned to the home of their maternal grandmother in Scotland . |
| 17 | He died at home in Tenterden Street 1 May 1818 , being buried at St George 's , Hanover Square , where the burial register notes that he was aged thirty-five . |
| 18 | A male dietitian would not have lost his job until he was aged 65 . |
| 19 | A portrait drawn by the young Adolph Hitler when he was aged 25 , together with an easel he used , on sale at a Gloucester auction . |
| 20 | When he was aged eleven , doctors gave him ten years to live . |
| 21 | They say he was aged 28 to 32-years-old with dark hair . |
| 22 | Upstairs , he was down the he 's just his clothes away . |
| 23 | He was down the pub . |
| 24 | Both my cousins were operators in a cotton mill where Uncle George was a maintenance fitter , a job which had left its mark for he was minus a finger on each hand . |
| 25 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 26 | She stressed what a violent man he was during this first marriage : ‘ But , after the break-up , Joan just wanted to forget him . ’ |
| 27 | And what does he think he was during these years ? |
| 28 | ( c ) Calculate , in terms of days , whether or not Grieg was more ( or less ) efficient in collecting his debts during the year ended 31 March Year 14 than he was during the previous year . |
| 29 | Willi came up to see how he was during the morning . |
| 30 | The meeting was friendly and Albert went off to Brighton where he roundly denounced me and all my works — without revealing that he was without his customary hat which he had forgotten and was hanging safely on a hook in my hall . |