Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was moved on to the job when we were short-handed last winter , and up-graded from labourer . ’ |
| 2 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 3 | However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department . |
| 4 | He was turned down by the " Goldsmith Libel Fund " , an eccentric exercise in philanthropy which bankrolls plaintiffs of conservative persuasion ( notably Tory MPs ) who bring libel actions against media organisations perceived as left-wing ( eg the BBC ) . |
| 5 | But it was n't the camp reactions he was troubled about at the moment , it was Mrs Robson 's . |
| 6 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 7 | At the storming of this fortress on 19 January he was blown up at the head of his brigade when a French magazine exploded , killing 108 men . |
| 8 | He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal . |
| 9 | Look at Ben Hogan , a legend and a perfectionist who gave up the game when he was struck down by the dreaded ‘ yips ’ . |
| 10 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 11 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 12 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 13 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 14 | He continued , ‘ That friend of yours , the Scotsman , Duncan something or other , he was called out during the night to deliver something to 45 Royal Marine Commando . |
| 15 | He was sent back to the front only twenty-one days after Lieutenant Makepeace had leapt up and shouted , ‘ Follow me . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries . |
| 18 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 19 | He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute . |
| 20 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 21 | He was b he was born up in the mountains |
| 22 | He was swallowed up in the fog . |
| 23 | As he was led up from the cells and into a cage , there was bedlam in the courtroom . |
| 24 | A magical , wonderful evening had ended on the highest of notes , Tony thought , as he was swept along towards the doors . |
| 25 | For a moment he was swept back into the past to those days when her temper would flare into demoniac rage . |
| 26 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 27 | He was tied up in the garden but was put in a pen at night . |
| 28 | He was dragged out into the light , the creature 's awful , Silk-resembled face , alive with the movement of the surface slime that quickened with expectation . |
| 29 | It would give him pleasure to make jokes that were n't funny while he was dressed up in the wedding-dress of a woman he claimed had been murdered also . |
| 30 | He was summoned down on the Saturday evening and his presence at least had the effect of giving its a vignette of Baldwin 's behaviour on the eve of what was likely to be the most testing week of his premiership . |