Example sentences of "was [verb] he [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 2 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 3 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 4 | And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half . |
| 5 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |
| 6 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 7 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 8 | The little boy 's father was lifting him out of the boat . |
| 9 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |