Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 2 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 3 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 4 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 5 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 6 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 7 | He had the writer laid out , face down with his baggy trousers around his knees , on a marble-topped kitchen table , and was anally violating him with a large , unwashed carrot . |
| 8 | Because he had prayed with a pure heart throughout the night , a tendril from the God-Emperor was now nudging him like a guardian spirit . |
| 9 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | Mr Wheelhouse , of Roseberry Crescent , Norton , Stockton , asked him where his money was then hit him on the head with the hammer , knocking him unconscious . |
| 11 | Richard , Agnes 's younger son , was to find the Justice of the Forests south of Trent twelve ‘ free and law-worthy men ’ who would guarantee that he would well and faithfully keep the said bailiwick on Agnes 's behalf : the Forest Justice was then to admit him to the custody in Agnes 's place . |