Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the dealers who were gathered with him at the wine bar succeeded in changing his mind . |
| 2 | The crowds who flocked to listen to John 's preaching of repentance were baptised by him in the Jordan in penitent expectation of the age of fulfilment which he proclaimed . |
| 3 | The court heard the shift supervisor at Three Mile Island change his testimony on the crucial relief-valve temperatures that were reported to him during the incident . |
| 4 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 5 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 6 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 7 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
| 8 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 9 | ‘ They were found with him in the pond . ’ |
| 10 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 11 | It will not do to paint Themistokles as Kimon 's opponent on the issue of foreign policy principles — that is , as a medising Sparta-hater — and thereby to seek to explain his ostracism in 471 : it is now certain that very many ostraka were cast against him in the early 480s when his patriotism was not in question . |
| 12 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II . |
| 14 | Both firms were associated with him in the pioneering venture of issuing cheap reprint series of his works : the Cheap , Library , People 's , and Charles Dickens Editions . |
| 15 | They were to stay with him throughout the desert campaign . |
| 16 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 17 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 18 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 19 | The museum began as a purely private collection by Gian Giacomo Poldi-Pezzoli in the last half of the nineteenth-century and was given by him to the city when he died in 1879 . |
| 20 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 21 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 22 | ‘ Words fail one at such moments ’ said the President when the news was broken to him at the Kremlin by the Norwegian Ambassador , but immediately recovering his powers of speech , he said he did n't see the prize as a personal achievement . |
| 23 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 24 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 25 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 26 | If so , it was at Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cummage ’ ) that Coleridge first set foot within that secluded , forgotten territory , bounded by the Quantock Hills and a bleakly impressive coastline , which was to remain with him for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | This time he was to remain with him to the end . |
| 28 | On the day of her resignation , the immortal line , ‘ It 's a funny old world , was fed by him to the press and television at his final unattributable lobby briefing at Downing Street . |
| 29 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 30 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |