Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 2 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 3 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 4 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |
| 5 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
| 6 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 7 | Only it seems they was callin' him by a different name , or names even . |
| 8 | She was treating him like a little boy . |
| 9 | The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being . |
| 10 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |