Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] he the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided to teach him the final lesson , which would also warn off other émigrés who thought that they were secure in the West and could say what they liked about Ceauşescu . |
| 2 | Importantly for Nicholson , this quirk in the social order was all that was needed to give him the kick-start he required , and it also provided him with more money than he had ever earned before . |
| 3 | He had done a good enough job of getting her to do that already , and she 'd be damned if she was going to give him the satisfaction of letting it happen again . |
| 4 | And eventually Doyle was forced to tell him the whole story . |
| 5 | His girlfriend was trying to give him the kiss of life . |