Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] him [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King James continued in the series of follies which were to lose him his throne , including the consecration of a papal nuncio in St James 's Chapel , the replacement of Protestant officers by Catholics in the army , and the creation of an Ecclesiastical Commission with wide and illegal disciplinary powers . |
| 2 | And she could not believe that he would marry Honoria Greville , might even throw her off if he knew what she had done , which was to lose him his heiress . |
| 3 | This hot-tempered ingrate was denying him his rights as head of the tribe . |
| 4 | When that grandfather , his last hope of a parent-figure among his own kin , turned his pipe , he pointed John Rowlands on the path which was to give him his place in history . |
| 5 | Hillary 's lucky number came up and he was one of the two members from the New Zealand team chosen to join an expedition which was to give him his place in the history books . |
| 6 | When Charles I went north at the beginning of the rebellion that was to cost him his head , his Lord General sent to Robert Barker , the King 's Printer , to bring a press to Newcastle-upon-Tyne , from which could be disseminated royalist proclamations and pamphlets . |
| 7 | It was to cost him his life |
| 8 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 9 | and he was showing him his arm , apparently he got erm |
| 10 | The caddie was offering him his 3-wood . |