Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 … |
| 32 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 35 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 38 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 39 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 40 | Such inspiration on the captain 's part was to help him towards an OBE , for with England then beating Australia in the first two games of the final , their clean sweep of three trophies out of three was accomplished . |
| 41 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 42 | Owen knew from the title that this was a member of the Egyptian Royal Family but which of the Khedive 's numerous progeny it was escaped him for the moment . |
| 43 | Only it seems they was callin' him by a different name , or names even . |
| 44 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 45 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 46 | She was treating him like a little boy . |
| 47 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |
| 48 | He put a solicitor down , and last time I spoke with him I was defending him on a for fraud . |
| 49 | The doves were fluttering upwards to the music , and his Maria Filippa — an unusual diva , wearing spectacles — with Pericle on her arm in a lace bonnet and button boots , was greeting him under the olives . |
| 50 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 51 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 52 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 53 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 54 | In 1901 he was elected to a fellowship at Caius ; among his colleagues there was ( Sir ) Ronald Fisher [ q.v. ] , who was to succeed him in the chair of genetics . |
| 55 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 56 | She was carrying him as a baby along a valley devoid of vegetation and with high hills on each side . |
| 57 | I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only |
| 58 | He saw the work that I examined and dealt with , and on the Tuesday , I was saluting him as an inspector . |
| 59 | Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention . |
| 60 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |