Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no acquittal since they were taking him back to the prison . |
| 2 | They were all studiously avoiding meeting his gaze , though he thought they were watching him out of the sides of their eyes . |
| 3 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 4 | He looked up into her wide blue eyes which were scrutinising him intently over the mug of tea which she was holding with two hands . |
| 5 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 6 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 7 | Nigel Powley ( 53 ) successfully defended his title , although William Speake ( 66 ) was catching him late in the race . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 9 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 10 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 11 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 12 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 13 | The little boy 's father was lifting him out of the boat . |
| 14 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |