Example sentences of "he [was/were] born [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he were born in Hong Kong were n't he ? |
| 2 | He were born in nineteen sixty four were n't he ? |
| 3 | No that 's right cos he were born in er |
| 4 | you had him when you were eighteen , he were born in June and you was nineteen in September were n't you ? |
| 5 | ‘ If you ask me , Mum , he was born under the Sign of the Pig . |
| 6 | He was born into a lower-class family in the small seaside village of Papudo where his father caught conger eels for the tourist restaurants . |
| 7 | He was born into cricket ; his grandfather started manufacturing bats and cricket equipment in the 1890s , his father carried on , and Stuart and his brother Percy eventually took over and built on their foundations to make it internationally successful . |
| 8 | ‘ Instead he was born into a role that was n't right for him . |
| 9 | He was born into the lower-middle-middle or upper-lower-middle or middle-lower-middle class of our hey diddle diddle society , and an adoring mother and a witty but ‘ hilariously unambitious ’ father brought up their only son on rectitude , decency and the mid-century Englishness of tea , quietness , the Daily Telegraph and Somerset cricket . |
| 10 | , I am told , did not come into politics , he was born into politics and I understand that his parents were strong and prominent members of the independent Labour Party and the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Along with his evil twin brother he was born of Ataensic , the earth goddess . |
| 12 | As it asserted , he was born of a humble background , worked as a salesman in Saudi Arabia in the early 1950s , prospered through his association with Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi entrepreneur , and then became a millionaire by helping to fix government contracts in the Gulf construction boom . |
| 13 | He was born to be |
| 14 | He was born to be King and was looking for a princess . |
| 15 | He was born to it , after all . ’ |
| 16 | He was born to Mary in the outhouse of the inn . |
| 17 | Gob open and arms flapping , Ashcroft has the rare ability to sing about how he 's ‘ born to fly ’ while looking like he was born to be institutionalised , and make it convincing . |
| 18 | Out he went , head shaking briefly , slowly and sadly , England 92 for 5 , and the young Middlesex batsman wondering if , contrary to what so many have believed , he was born to be a Test cricketer . |
| 19 | Our passage continues a description of Titus Groan 's childhood as heir to the phantasmagorical mansion of Gormenghast : [ 19 ] Who are the characters ? ( 1 ) And what has he [ Titus ] learned of them and of his home since that far day when he was born to the Countess of Groan in a room alive with birds ? ( 2 ) . |
| 20 | He could fish with Mr Burkett — they had caught a fine pike and two trout on the lazy trawl up-lake — he could let go all those minaretted plans , those fantastical ambitions , and be what he was born to be , a jovial , lazy , loved and loving man , getting by . |
| 21 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 22 | The Encomiast 's tale that he was born to another woman and smuggled into Ælfgifu of Northampton 's bed at least implies that he was generally recognised as son of Cnut and Ælfgifu , and Adam calls Gorm the Old Hardecnudth Vurm , which if correct makes it feasible to believe that Cnut named Swegen and Harold from his father and grandfather , and Harthacnut , evidently the third-born , after his great-grandfather . |
| 23 | He himself went into the Army , and erm , he was , he was born in a in a little village , and an article in the newspaper that I acquired in Strasbourg , said that he was born in this little village Lom le Soniere his was born to life , but in Strasbourg , where he wrote the National Anthem , he was born to immortality . |
| 24 | But I thought John had been put into a job that in fact he was born to and getting his teeth into |
| 25 | They sat along one wall by unspoken consent , like a school dance : a grey-haired man in a grey anorak with a once-brutal face now cowed by misery into a sort of gentleness ; an Asian couple , he in a leather jacket , resigned , she pretty and solicitous ; another grey-haired man who looked as though defeat was what he was born for ; a bearded man with a red scarf , lips twitching as he rehearsed things to say , things which would not help . |
| 26 | He was born for a hanging , that one . |
| 27 | Laing accepts that to some extent he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth . |
| 28 | Jerry Brown , the Democrats ' dark horse in the presidential primaries , is settled in a worn armchair , cradling a 10-month-old baby called Peter , whose eyes are vacant because he was born with both cocaine and the HIV virus in his veins . |
| 29 | If our predictions are correct , he was born with an even temperament , high intelligence , a low aggression response . |
| 30 | His brow furrows , the grooves of skin that ridge his forehead a natural thing he was born with . |