Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stuffed the bundle of papers into his pocket and pulled a face , as if the toothpick was causing him some sort of pain . |
| 2 | The King was paying him some money every year , and Ben wanted to give a party for his friends . |
| 3 | No one like himself , a partial cripple , with a badly scarred body — his limp was paining him this week — and with a ruined face into the bargain could hope to aspire to such a Bird of Paradise ; he could only imagine what she looked like in the clothes she normally wore . |
| 4 | Later , after his championship , the relation was to make him rich . |
| 5 | Somehow the glove was keeping him aware and conscious , blocking any opiates of the brain , preventing any saving reflex of a swoon . |
| 6 | The stark , blank space in the column listing ‘ father 's name and occupation ’ on his birth certificate was to haunt him all his life . |
| 7 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 8 | David Beaton , shaking his head , said that the interest was keeping him alive , and his mind was clear . |
| 9 | He was tired , and the heat of the fire was making him sleepy . |