Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janacek writes words as he writes music — the two were for him virtually indivisible , and in these abrupt , epigrammatic paragraphs , sometimes brutally down to earth , sometimes fanciful , you can hear him talking — often shouting in your ear . |
| 2 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 3 | Green 's mountains are and were for him unlike those of Scotland with their purple grandeur and exotic shapes , nor did they have their awesome desolation . |
| 4 | Irwin 's first public act upon arriving in India was to appeal , in terms that were for him impassioned , for harmony between Muslims and Hindus . |
| 5 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 6 | It did n't need a Russian scholar to understand that the bald man was claiming that the documents and the guns were for him , only food and drink for the ‘ businessmen ’ . |
| 7 | And when we were apart and my thoughts were about him , my body absorbed my mind 's obsession and throbbed for him . |
| 8 | With that he went off down the bank as though all the hounds of hell were after him . |
| 9 | He brought me as far as your gate , which was decent of him — and then bolted as if the bears were after him . |
| 10 | My dad would say , Stay well away from them , he was always afraid they were after him for all the taxes he had n't paid . |
| 11 | A previous lodger had departed on receipt of a message that the rozzers were after him on account of a jeweller 's broken window . |
| 12 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 13 | But he was still not suffering from his hypmaniacal attack — he now believed the Mafia were after him — and when the ambulance stopped at Tottenham Court Road , a quarter of a mile away , he leapt out and set off again naked down the street . |
| 14 | Probably , but he was hiding he would n't come out because he said that the men from outer space were after him . |
| 15 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
| 16 | Oliver was now a strong and healthy boy , and very fond of Rose and Mrs Maylie — as they were of him . |
| 17 | On the ice one man fell and was scooped back to his feet by those who were behind him . |
| 18 | Hazel now saw that Speedwell and Acorn were behind him , listening expectantly . |
| 19 | Bock and Grigoriev were behind him on the main section of the catwalk . |
| 20 | For Cockburn , by then a 27-year-old journalist , student days were behind him . |
| 21 | He belonged with them , They were like him , as undernourished in one way as he was in another . |
| 22 | " If the other bishops were like him , " he said , " no king or ruler would dare raise up his head against them . " " |
| 23 | It would be wonderful if more were like him . ’ |
| 24 | It would be wonderful if more were like him . ’ |
| 25 | Mind you must remember at the time when he was fighting to put it through , the bill through parliament , the whole B M A , British Medical Association were against him , to a man . |
| 26 | The shoal of snapper were above him . |
| 27 | Here he slowly drifted ; the rains had ceased , the thermometer was at 10 , a glaring sun and a coppery sky were above him ; he looked in vain for help , but no prospect of escape animated him , and the hot sun began its dreadful work . |
| 28 | Cleese and Michael Palin were with him when he died . |
| 29 | I could see how things were with him at home ; his wife was no good at her job . |
| 30 | He wished Emily were with him , to share the adventure ; to talk about it afterwards and laugh with relief . |