Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 32 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
| 33 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 34 | Cathy was looking past him into the studio . |
| 35 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 36 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 37 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 38 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 39 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 40 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 41 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 42 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 43 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 44 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 45 | Tom was waiting for him at the bottom . |
| 46 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 47 | Hasan was waiting for him at the top of the stairs , and , as soon as he heard his guardian 's tread , the little boy sat up , sniffed the air and stretched out his hands like a cat , waking after sleep . |
| 48 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
| 49 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 50 | The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts . |
| 51 | She was waiting for him in the apartment . |
| 52 | Curtis , the local CID sergeant , was waiting for him in the police station . |
| 53 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 54 | Dalziel 's car was waiting for him by the exit . |
| 55 | So wh wh what do you think of the the attitude that was displayed towards him after the abdication ? |
| 56 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 57 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 58 | The ordination was conferred upon him by the special approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 59 | By the summer , after a trial period , he was doing well , and the necessary clothing was provided for him by the Union . |
| 60 | Then Amanda had lain on the bed and made a few suggestions which insulted his experience ; he 'd fumbled hurriedly with zips and cuff buttons , his Calvinistic conscience retreating into its corner , and then exultation was running through him like the roar of the crowd the night Jim Watt had won his title . |