Example sentences of "he [was/were] greet [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Nicholas returned to Parkhead to play his home debut in a showpiece friendly against Everton he was greeted with rapturous applause . |
| 2 | When , on 4 December , Suenens called for a complete redrafting of the schema on the Church , he was greeted with prolonged applause and backed by Montini . |
| 3 | At the Franz Joseph he was greeted with great style and they were led into the terrace restaurant , to a table with a magnificent view over the whole of the Hochhauser valley , once more covered in snow . |
| 4 | He was greeted with massive and ironic cheers from the Opposition and listened to in almost total silence by our own benches . |
| 5 | Launching into a big spiel about the merits of Hammond organs and '60s rarities , he was greeted with baffled looks all round . |
| 6 | Mr Hurd also visited Hartlepool 's new £160m marina yesterday where he was greeted by Conservative candidate Graham Robb . |
| 7 | Among the former are many participles , both present and past : ( 26 ) the watching crowd started to laugh he was greeted by smiling well-wishers the injured man had been feeding the orang-utan but participles do not exhaust the possibilities : ( 27 ) the angry bartender slammed the drink down five empty tumblers were standing by his elbow Notice , too , the clear ambiguity of : ( 28 ) a flashing light as meaning either a light which is flashing on some particular occasion , or one which normally has this characteristic . |