Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back .
2 And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark .
3 Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill .
4 However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction .
5 The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching .
6 It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa .
7 And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin …
8 But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go .
9 The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life .
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