Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 2 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 3 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 7 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 8 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 9 | A man was watching him from no more than ten feet away , standing still but looking backwards , as if his attention had been drawn to Ross 's sudden appearance . |
| 10 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 13 | Such inspiration on the captain 's part was to help him towards an OBE , for with England then beating Australia in the first two games of the final , their clean sweep of three trophies out of three was accomplished . |
| 14 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |