Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] him in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 2 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 3 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 4 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 5 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 6 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 7 | In 1901 he was elected to a fellowship at Caius ; among his colleagues there was ( Sir ) Ronald Fisher [ q.v. ] , who was to succeed him in the chair of genetics . |
| 8 | Behind the scenes , Sir Reginald was negotiating with political leaders about the composition of the Executive Council which was to assist him in the government of the country until elections could be held . |
| 9 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 10 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 11 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |