Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought she was going to be meeting him next weekend then ? |
| 2 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 3 | But some change in himself , the inexorable years , success , the return of his poetry , perhaps the tentative beginning of love , seemed to be making him sociable . |
| 4 | He 'd complain that all the work he was doing did n't seem to be making him any bigger . ’ |
| 5 | He went back to the cage and concentrated on Bobo , because she seemed to be giving him more attention and was sitting close up to the bars . |