Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing further was heard from him on that subject but in the meantime Whitbread had made contact with a Bedford surgeon , Samuel Young , who embarked on an extended trial of the remedy over the course of the following three years . |
| 2 | My suggestion to Angus , while we were dishwashing after the battle , that maybe his food could have been injected somehow with a substance that even now could be working away to the detriment of everyone 's health was received by him with frosty amusement . |
| 3 | In the same year Giovanni Animuccia ( C. 1500–1571 ) , who succeeded Palestrina as master of the Cappella Giuliana in 1555 and was succeeded by him in 1571 , described his First Book of Masses as composed ‘ seconda la forma del Concilio di Trento ’ , and Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1510–1587 ) of Milan Cathedral explained in the dedication of his book of Masses ‘ according to the Milan rite ’ ( 1570 ) that he had composed them on Borromeo 's instructions ‘ ex sancti tridentini Concilii decreto ’ . |
| 4 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 5 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 6 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 7 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 8 | Louise , his warm-hearted , likeable , former neighbour was looking at him with obvious concern . |
| 9 | The mineral Gieseckite was named after him in 1817 , but his projected book on Greenland was never completed . |
| 10 | ‘ The fact that I was needed by him in that setting was actually very attractive , because I was important . |
| 11 | The Model Railways and Locomotives magazine was founded by him in 1908 and became a platform from which he could share his knowledge and expertise with others . |
| 12 | And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all . |
| 13 | Miss Jarman was glaring at him with impatient curiosity and strong distaste . |
| 14 | so all that writing is actually surrounding your picture is n't it , you 've come up with your sensational picture and then you surround your sensational picture with your writing , I was saying to him with these little sub-headings like trapped , right , cost , holiday , okay which actually keep your reader hooked and make them want to read on . |
| 15 | In the end , a post was found for him in 1844 as palaeontologist with the Geological Survey , with a salary of 300 per year ; and on the strength of this in 1848 he married . |
| 16 | This is indeed what happened although he held the office for over a year until the seat was found for him in 1877 . |
| 17 | The arms on a tea-tray we will be selling are those of the Duke of Northumberland and I am fascinated to read that his first wife was divorced by him in 1779 . |
| 18 | Suddenly he realized that everyone in the queue was staring at him with frank interest and uninhibited hostility . |
| 19 | He looked towards Peg , who was staring at him with undisguised loathing . |
| 20 | Zen glanced at Ellen , who was staring at him in horrified disbelief . |
| 21 | The last thing she wanted , she said , was to live with him in some godforsaken bog , cut off from relatives and shops . |
| 22 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 23 | His faltering authority was demonstrated in December when an extensive Cabinet reshuffle was forced upon him by factional leaders . |
| 24 | He was delighted by the somewhat undeserved honour of the Chancellorship of the University , which was bestowed upon him in 1930 , and which he retained to the end of his life . |
| 25 | The petition was not successful but a deputation to Sir James Graham , Home Secretary , in April 1842 received some encouragement and an amended petition and a draft of a Charter of Incorporation was submitted to him on 24 March 1843 . |
| 26 | It is probable that Sheffield did make a start , for a fresh lease was issued to him on 5 December 1806 for the remaining 18 years of his term by Lady Anne Frederica Elizabeth le Fleming — Sir Michael had died . |
| 27 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
| 28 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
| 29 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |