Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] he in the " in BNC.
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1 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
2 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
3 | The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic . |
4 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
5 | He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face . |