Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 2 | However , Hermann says that he was generous to them , and the Bury Psalter and the Bury Gospels , both of which seem to have been produced in Christ Church Canterbury , were possibly commissioned by him as gifts . |
| 3 | And the Oldham boo-boys were still screaming for him to be substituted when he headed an injury-time winner . |
| 4 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues of Ightham , were also granted to him by papal indult . |
| 5 | The methods used by Walpole to derive the above bounds were later applied by him to the case of transversely isotropic inclusions in a homogeneous matrix . |
| 6 | It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ . |
| 7 | He was often directed to see to the ploughing , tilling and sowing of assarts , waste and other lands belonging to the king in the forest , and cattle were sometimes sent to him to be fattened on the forest pastures . |
| 8 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 9 | Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest . |
| 10 | In 1326 he advised the king against an attempt to divorce his wife and was especially commended by him to Hugh le Despenser the younger [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 12 | Grandson was with Edward I during his visit to France and Aquitaine in 1286–9 , and was constantly employed by him in business at the courts of France and Aragon during those years . |
| 13 | So that when , one evening , Sally-Anne , radiant in pink and silver , a fortune in pearls around her neck , the mere sight of which made Havvie salivate internally , was gently led by him into a conservatory — at the Keppels ' this time — and proposed to , there was only one answer which she could give him , and that , of course , was yes . |
| 14 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 15 | Horrible thought , but suppose she was just living with him for his money ? |
| 16 | The boy was still looking round him as if he expected someone to come . |
| 17 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |
| 18 | But if this state of comparative retirement owed much to his desire to experience as fully as possible the companionship of marriage , it was also imposed upon him by the demands of his still fragile health . |
| 19 | This he etched in outline on a copper plate , and a print was immediately prepared for him on a piece of drawing-paper . |
| 20 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 21 | On 12 October 1738 , as ‘ B.B. Philo Physiologiae ’ , he issued proposals in the Daily Advertiser for subscribers to this work which was then printed for him by Godfrey Smith in ten volumes , plus plates , between 1738 and 1741 , under the title of Memoirs of the Royal Society ; being a new Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions for the years 1665 to 1735 . |
| 22 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 23 | Thirdly , the Abbe Gerard apparently drowned after drinking claret which was undoubtedly sent to him by Dacourt , though taken down to the village probably by his secretary , Master Millet . |
| 24 | In May 1990 he suffered a broken leg when a car was allegedly driven into him near his home in Provanmill where he lived with his wife Rita , son Billy , 25 , and Arthur jun 's daughter Amanda , 13 , in converted council houses which have been nicknamed locally ‘ Southfork ’ . |
| 25 | He was a bachelor , and this was certainly expected of him by his colleagues . |
| 26 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 27 | In 1912 the same principle was reaffirmed to W. A. S. Hewins by Bonar Law , in a letter that was actually drafted for him by Steel-Maitland : " If a constituency definitely refuses to accept a candidate , even if the Central Office wish them to do so , they can not be forced to take action against their will . |
| 28 | The position of women that Engels found when he was writing was therefore seen by him as the product of a moment of history . |
| 29 | I was never dropped by him at Boro or Wednesday . |