Example sentences of "were [verb] him in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema .
2 You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout .
3 ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way .
4 But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go .
5 Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ .
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