Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] him [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All meetings were boring to him unless the participants could talk in depth and unless the debate was by a small enough number of people for personal friendships to be fostered . |
| 2 | I ask whether this money too , which was given to him after the will was made , is understood to be included in the legacy . |
| 3 | Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about … |
| 4 | The sweat was pouring from him when the ultimate moment arrived . |
| 5 | Diana was chatting to him when the telephone rang . |
| 6 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |