Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The people here were with him every step of the way . |
| 2 | ‘ You were with him the night he died ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Naturally , I would prefer McCoist to play because if we were without him the Maltese coach , Philip Psaila , would be entitled to rub his hands in delight . ’ |
| 4 | So far as I am aware , Eliot was not a concert-goer , but chamber music in the home — which in his case meant somebody else 's home — and above all the last Quartets of Beethoven , were to him a source of more than aesthetic pleasure . |
| 5 | It is clearly inconsistent for one who calls Jesus " Lord " to think lightly of those scriptures which were to him the supreme revelation of God . |
| 6 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
| 7 | As the Empress Eugénie remarked : ‘ It was for him a cannon ball that he dragged at his feet all his life . ’ |
| 8 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 9 | Even his understanding of musical pattern and musical form , which in practice was for him a deeply instinctive activity , was discussed in terms of the musical pattern which is " latent in common speech " . |
| 10 | It was for him a dreadful test of endurance . |
| 11 | Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation . |
| 12 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 13 | This was for him the beginning of an independent ‘ second career ’ after leaving the army . |
| 14 | That was his happiness , to talk to a captured ear was for him the thrill of seeing the Commandant 's office roofless and destroyed . |
| 15 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 16 | Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other . |
| 17 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 18 | Even like that , hopelessly drunk and quite tired out , there was about him an appealing look of promise , of everything that can be meant by friendship . |
| 19 | He will be even more fortunate if he has his conviction quashed , since there was against him an open-and-shut case under section 15 . |
| 20 | God was with him every day , worrying over the smallest details of his life . |
| 21 | ‘ I was with him the other night and some of the things he was saying , I know that if he found out about us … ’ |
| 22 | Pat was with him the day a young woman approached him exceedingly politely while he was enjoying his veal — in one of his favourite Italian restaurants , Biagis , he would go for a filleted sole — and asked for his autograph . |
| 23 | Just as Greek was to him a ‘ sacred language ’ , so ‘ every Baptist place should be Grecian , never Gothic ’ . |
| 24 | He could accept rejection , but to be actively disliked was to him a kind of living death . |
| 25 | The interpretation of his objective through committees , in which he could win over doubters , was to him a central part of the chairman 's task . |
| 26 | Both reactions intensified when Lord Wyatt looked around , surveying what was to him a motley collection of petty gentry , squires , and baronets . |
| 27 | He brushed aside all arguments of law , and concentrated on what was to him the central issue . |
| 28 | His study , with its big untidy desk strewn with folders of notes and the proofs of a book he was correcting , was to him the most congenial room in the house . |
| 29 | No one , he thought , and despised himself for what was to him an unnatural need . |
| 30 | Sharing photographs was to him an act of intimacy ; to show someone a photograph you took was to give them a ‘ deeper insight into you as well as what you discerned ’ . |