Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 2 | He noticed that Hari was watching him with dull eyes . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 5 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 6 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 7 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 11 | A further £375 was allowed him for assistants , and £52 for a Caretaker , heating , cleaning , coal , and coke " . |
| 12 | Brückner was watching him with wide , frightened eyes . |
| 13 | He realized that a robot was stripping him of his armour and removing all detectable weapons . |
| 14 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 15 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 23 | A man was watching him from no more than ten feet away , standing still but looking backwards , as if his attention had been drawn to Ross 's sudden appearance . |
| 24 | The old man was regarding him as if he were a strange species behind bars . |
| 25 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 26 | Then Izzie was calling him from behind the pageant . |
| 27 | The only reason Trent could imagine for the attack was to link him to Don Roberto 's murder — this presumed that the three men were Don Roberto 's hirelings . |
| 28 | Chicken Likken was holding him to her breast with her wings , trying to comfort him . |
| 29 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
| 30 | It is believed Stavridis told the judge in a behind-closed-doors grilling that the pilot was directing him from shore . |