Example sentences of "he [verb] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have had heroes in our time at Crystal Palace but there was only one Albert Harry and those who had the pleasure and privilege of seeing him play were lucky indeed . |
| 2 | The eloquent points he made were irrefutable . |
| 3 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 4 | The only sounds he registered were the faint rumblings of hangar doors and the occasional roar of powerful engines as his fellow-pilots tested their jets . |
| 5 | The proofs which he produced were so convincing that to keep him quiet he was first made Bishop of Exeter and then , when he complained that the diocese 's revenues were inadequate for his family , Bishop of Worcester . |
| 6 | Despite the slightly unsatisfactory nature of the data set used by Lucas , and although the tests he applied were hardly rigorous , his paper was influential in that it was one of the first to show that certain of the predictions made by the rational expectations hypothesis were not entirely inconsistent with the data . |
| 7 | The directions he devised were as follows : |
| 8 | I think the old man 's a bit afraid to go into hospital , I know that he 's afraid obviously cos of the , the , this open heart surgery sort of thing but er , he 's also afraid that , he thinks were gon na have er such outrageous parties down the close and were gon na be open all night and things like that . |
| 9 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 10 | Most of the games he owned were very old and substandard but the one saving grace in his collection was a game called Rambo . |
| 11 | He would commit a nuisance just as much if what he owned were a manure heap . |
| 12 | ( One of our correspondents serving with 1st Armoured Division reports a visit to 1st Bn. , Staffordshire Regt. , in which he knew a company from 1st Grenadier Guards was serving under command ; the first men he encountered were a Milan crew — from 1st Royal Green Jackets … ) |
| 13 | There is a record of a severe lecture he delivered to Capuchin monks in Prague whom he found were living far more expansively than his own abstemious style would permit . |
| 14 | What he provided were the principles . |
| 15 | The gardens he created were seldom visited until 1851 , when a series of articles in the Gardeners ' Chronicle created a sensation by describing the transplanting operations , the grafted conifers , the avenues of multiple rows of different species , the architectural topiary , and the series of formal gardens enclosed by hedges . |
| 16 | Those to whom he referred were unlikely to believe that Mosley would stand between them and their destruction . |
| 17 | The two leftish books to which he referred were duly reviewed , and I admit to have rather enjoyed undertaking the ‘ thorough cutting up ’ which he declared the Levy book to deserve ( it did ) . |
| 18 | Privately the words he used were ‘ I 'll be jiggered . |
| 19 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 20 | The form of words that he used were these : ‘ Lord king , I do you homage for all the lands which I ought to hold from you ’ . |
| 21 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 22 | His hall was built on a north-to-south axis , so that the wind blew through it constantly , keeping the air fresh ; but the odours of the spices and scented oils he used were the only ones a visitor might smell . |
| 23 | Among the devices he used were puns . |
| 24 | Elements of the macroeconomic framework which he proposed were examined in Chapter 10 . |
| 25 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 26 | The revolts he mentioned were being led by dissident army officers in Sumatra and elsewhere . |
| 27 | the employer and I asked him what documents they produced , what report they produced we have written a letter about it , but I formally call for any report or document from and the second thing he mentioned were letters from about twelve members of parliament that they received |
| 28 | The few rooms he entered were n't any better . |
| 29 | Branson had prepared a dossier of allegations which he says were ‘ more suitable for an episode of Dick Tracy than for the airline industry ’ . |
| 30 | The first detectors he says were ‘ Made literally on a garage workbench ’ . |