Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] he [prep] [art] " 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 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 5 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 6 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 7 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Palmer 's views were shared by the other Northern Residents who , early in his career as Lieutenant-Governor , were organized by him into an effective pressure group known as the Conference of Residents . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were handed to him by a tiny nut-brown man in a red fez , who also sold little packets of sugared almonds and pistachios . |
| 15 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 16 | ‘ They were found with him in the pond . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Davis touched his forelock and then glanced towards the Oaks , as though conscious that George 's eyes were fixed on him with a disturbing intensity . |
| 19 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We were standing around him in a ragged semi-circle in the gym at the end of our physical education period . |
| 24 | In late February his arrest was ordered as charges of rebellion with murder were filed against him in a Manila court . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They were to stay with him throughout the desert campaign . |
| 27 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Although in school activities Ernest was energetic and successful , twice he ran away from home before the Kansas City Star was joined by him as a cub reporter in 1917 . |
| 30 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |