Example sentences of "he [verb] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had demanded exorbitant fees for his speaking engagements and billed the Socialist Labor Party for theatre tickets and corsages which he claimed were for Eleanor . |
| 2 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 3 | He had no qualms about dropping players he thought were off form , but would talk to them individually to encourage them , or if he wanted to make a point arising from their game . |
| 4 | At that time there were never any buskers in Baker Street station and the ones he saw were at Leicester Square or Green Park . |
| 5 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 6 | He was , though , still unwilling to put up with people who he felt were beneath his intellectual level . |
| 7 | However , much one may respect Borg 's reputation and his unerring sportsmanship , I find it hard to share his optimism , especially as only 16 of the 54 points he won were from his winners . |
| 8 | The ones he had were in Arabic , French and English . |
| 9 | The last time the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) expressed his concerns , he gave a list of our programmes which he said were to be destroyed and eliminated . |
| 10 | He dismissed some of the popular images of the Specials which he said were off the mark . |
| 11 | And as he had her , he emitted grunts which he hoped were in character for the director of a man-made fibres company . |