Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] him in [art] " 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 A commission of magistrates and theologians from the University of Louvain was appointed to examine him in a long-drawn-out process in which translations of his heretical works were prepared by Philips ; written charges and rebuttals in Latin passed to and fro between the Commission and Tyndale , followed by oral examinations .
6 He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face .
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