Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 2 | During these years Mackmurdo absorbed the main aesthetic and moral influences that were to guide him through his life , not so much from immediate masters as from the writings of John Ruskin , Herbert Spencer [ qq.v. ] , and Auguste Comte . |
| 3 | It was probably only my trousers that were holding him in ! ’ |
| 4 | It was n't long before Wall Street wooed Koons away with the prospect of higher wages as a commodities broker , which the then-aspiring artist claimed he needed to produce sculptures that were costing him $3,000 a shot . |
| 5 | At last Mr Utterson mentioned the thoughts that were worrying him . |
| 6 | But he thought he knew a thing or two about muscles , and the knowledge that it was only a couple of big muscles that were keeping him alive was not comforting . |
| 7 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 8 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 9 | That must be the thing that was plaguing him , riding him so hard . |
| 10 | That was the first time he let me see the extent of the bitterness that was poisoning him . |
| 11 | He kissed her again , lightly this time , conscious of the crowd and the cold dread that was touching him . |
| 12 | If Zen had survived more or less intact all this time it was thanks to the instinct that was telling him to leave now . |
| 13 | Haines died 16 June 1860 , at Bombay harbour on a ship that was to take him to England , one week after his release from prison . |
| 14 | Scored for flute , viola and harp , it is alternately perky and elegiac in mood , reflecting the happier circumstances of its composition — and Zeisl 's knowledge of the heart condition that was to kill him three years later . |
| 15 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |
| 16 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 17 | He climbed into the bus that was taking him and the company 's guests back to the hotel and he sat next to someone he did not recognise in the only seat left vacant . |
| 18 | And as soon as the the first ones forefeet touch the deck of the boat , the boat just disappeared and it was the trolls that was taking him home . |
| 19 | The same sort of ‘ business ’ that was taking him away for ten days . |
| 20 | When he burst out against some restriction , delay , inaccuracy or bureaucratic procedure that was choking him , Laura sat with her hands neatly folded staring straight in front of her , a controlled tear welling in the corner of her eye , but never even near to a response . |
| 21 | Bacon did not want to teach but liked the studio that was offered him , and so replaced Minton , less as a tutor than as an honorary visitor . |
| 22 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 23 | Then Carter went on to add phrase that was to haunt him as , only a few weeks later riots and disaffection began to unfold across the country and within twelve months led to the fall of the Shah . |
| 24 | It was the view from his study window opposite his desk that was distracting him , and he thought fleetingly of sitting somewhere else . |
| 25 | I 'm sure it was that meeting that was scaring him . ’ |
| 26 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |
| 27 | The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison . |
| 28 | When Charles I went north at the beginning of the rebellion that was to cost him his head , his Lord General sent to Robert Barker , the King 's Printer , to bring a press to Newcastle-upon-Tyne , from which could be disseminated royalist proclamations and pamphlets . |
| 29 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 30 | The worst of it was that his headaches made him so angry ; it was a symptom of the poison that was killing him by degrees . |