Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 2 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 3 | That was typical of Sam : although he was acknowledged to be one of the finest seamen in the village , he was still young , and reluctant to delegate the steering to members of his crew . |
| 4 | Ian Barclay , coach to the 1987 Wimbledon champion , said it was extremely unlikely Cash would play singles then , but he was aiming to be fit for the Davis Cup tie with France in February . |
| 5 | Erm , on the grounds that the substance he was dealing with was complicated , and I think , erm , colleague is right to reprove me for some of the language . |
| 6 | While he was perceived to be concerned with the great strategic issues of war leadership , the representatives of the Party had to tackle the tedious , and often unpopular , workaday matters affecting daily life in the Heimat . |
| 7 | There was , though , a real danger that he was destined to be one of the game 's nearly men . |
| 8 | Father Shanahan received his call to God when he was engaged to be married , the court heard . |
| 9 | I remember my mess-mate and how he was engaged to be married , and today he would be happily married with kids . ’ |
| 10 | She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed . |
| 11 | He was believed to be pro-French , and therefore ‘ liberal ’ . |
| 12 | Perhaps he was trying to be hospitable — not an easy task for him when she was the guest ! |
| 13 | He was trying to be friendly , that 's all . |
| 14 | I looked to see if he was trying to be unpleasant but he was obviously making an effort to be polite . |
| 15 | He was trying to be jolly again . |
| 16 | For instance , one woman who was described by all as extremely jealous of her husband ( he was said to be innocent ) had an angry liver , and she was always quarrelling . |
| 17 | He was said to be one of the highest-placed spies unmasked by Soviet intelligence in recent years . |
| 18 | Later when the prices soared he was said to be furious . |
| 19 | In 1942 he was persuaded to go into hospital , where he was said to be schizophrenic . |
| 20 | He was said to be level-headed and unlikely to be affected by a few fancy words . |
| 21 | Last night he was said to be comfortable . |
| 22 | Mr Morton was rushed to Middlesbrough General Hospital 's burns unit where last night he was said to be comfortable ’ . |
| 23 | He was said to be comfortable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night . |
| 24 | He was said to be comfortable in Leeds General Infirmary with facial injuries and fractures . |
| 25 | Last night he was said to be comfortable in the West Highland Hospital , Oban . |
| 26 | He was said to be super-strong and super-virile , invulnerable to mortal harm , and had occupied the throne for more than two centuries . |
| 27 | But , as a soldier , he was trained to be wary . |
| 28 | He was determined to be thorough in his preparations , and made sure there were plenty of games before the Tests began so that the players could get used to the conditions . |
| 29 | He was determined to be accessible during the campaign : in the past he had been accused of being too aloof . |
| 30 | Even so , he was determined to be gentle with her . |