Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably written in the winter of 1857 , those two words were to propel him into prominence and , ultimately , the White House as newspapers across the country broadcast his speech ( est. $300,000–500,000 ; £196,000–327,000 ) . |
| 2 | No wonder Mr MacGregor produced his paper and called for full public discussion just as political pundits were tipping him for promotion in a ministerial reshuffle . |
| 3 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 4 | He noticed that Hari was watching him with dull eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 6 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 7 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 8 | Hundreds of rats were watching him with bright , anxious little eyes . |
| 9 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 10 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 11 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 12 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 13 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 14 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 15 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 16 | A further £375 was allowed him for assistants , and £52 for a Caretaker , heating , cleaning , coal , and coke " . |
| 17 | Brückner was watching him with wide , frightened eyes . |
| 18 | He realized that a robot was stripping him of his armour and removing all detectable weapons . |
| 19 | Thailand 's leading conservationist , Sueb Nakhasatien , committed suicide in 1990 after complaining repeatedly that official corruption and a lack of resources were preventing him from acting effectively against wildlife poaching . |
| 20 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 21 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 22 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 23 | England team manager Keith Fletcher denied that Stewart 's problems with a bruised and misshapen right index finger were preventing him from keeping wicket and defended the decision to include Blakey . |
| 24 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 25 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 26 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 27 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 28 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 29 | The son who was born in 1511 , lived only six weeks and there followed a succession of miscarriages and still-births , so Henry VIII convinced himself that God was punishing him for marrying his late brother 's widow , so he sought the Popes annulment of the marriage . |
| 30 | His first and continuing urge was to drive him towards crisis and clarity , which involved , one might almost say which meant , finding a podvig that would satisfy his idea of Stavrogin . |