Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 2 | They had even heard that Angel 's family were planning for him to marry a neighbour 's daughter . |
| 3 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 4 | ‘ I was resigned to him missing the return leg , but he has recovered remarkably quickly . |
| 5 | The bread supplied by Benjamin Maulden was ‘ very indifferently baked ’ and the house surgeon was to write to him expressing the Board 's dissatisfaction — which was extended to a Mr. Bentham , whose bread was found to be underweight . |
| 6 | An appointment was made for him to see an orthopaedic consultant who had a monthly clinic in Bala . |
| 7 | At a committee dinner held in his honour the day following his 90th birthday , Percy was told that the committee would like him to accept the role of branch president , and a commemorative plaque was presented to him to mark the occasion . |
| 8 | The Production Code Administration that was set under him to put the code into practice became one of the most influential bodies of the field of social mores , and the regulations themselves became dubbed the ‘ Hays ’ Code , . |
| 9 | Although Harold Wilson did not equate with Bevan in personal terms — in colour or in rhetoric — he too can feel pleased that the condemnation that in many quarters was directed at him demonstrated the genuine respect for his qualities that his adversaries feared . |
| 10 | But then there was a calm hand on his shoulder , and Madra was leaning past him to set a tray on the table , her hair swinging over his arm . |
| 11 | I was sent with him to keep the accounts . |