Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 2 | He was moved on to the job when we were short-handed last winter , and up-graded from labourer . ’ |
| 3 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 4 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 5 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 6 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |
| 7 | He was sent back to the front only twenty-one days after Lieutenant Makepeace had leapt up and shouted , ‘ Follow me . ’ |
| 8 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 9 | Fortescue dropped the manuscript he was reading on to the table . |
| 10 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 11 | In 1916 he was co-opted on to the trench fever committee of the War Office , and attempted to discover the causal organism of the fever . |
| 12 | Having made his eccentric gesture , John returned to his position at the bow of the boat and to the strains of a rousing strathspey he was rowed back to the shore . |
| 13 | The lift doors closed across his exclamation of relief and frustration and he was carried down to the ground floor . |
| 14 | Mr Hyslop had had little idea how badly he was injured until he was heading back to the station in the van . |
| 15 | He was handed over to the terribly liberal ( sorry , I think that should be liberally terrible ) dictator by Mr David Steel , hard-line leader of a British political grouping engaged in the notorious Lib-Lab pact , at a time when Ceausescu was still wildly popular . |
| 16 | Refused by all , he doggedly returned to Scotland and carried on guerilla warfare until , captured by further treachery , he was handed over to the English by the sheriff of Dumbarton . |
| 17 | He was handed over to the British army and sent back to England . |
| 18 | He was quickly driven to Damascus where he was handed over to the US chargé d'affaires , John Craig . |
| 19 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 20 | However , he was not thrown out , he was taken back to the station and locked up for the night . |
| 21 | He was taken back to the ward on his bed and staff nurse then checked his condition . |
| 22 | She intercepted Dieter just as he was emerging on to the terrace . |
| 23 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |
| 24 | In time , he was welcomed back to the Salvation Army , who even arranged for a star bearing his name to be laid on Hollywood Boulevard alongside those of the great movie stars . |
| 25 | He was dancing up to the youngest dog again , sideways this time , head on one side , goading him . |
| 26 | He was carted off to the Scottish Military Hospital in Alexandria , while the remainder of the group made a second jump the following day without any further serious mishaps . |
| 27 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 28 | The head 's face immediately fell , as he was brought back to the tribulations of the moment . |
| 29 | However , he assured her that the fact Putt was conscious when he was brought back to the manor meant he had probably suffered no permanent damage . |
| 30 | Now he 'd told me he was going up to the Cathedral . |