Example sentences of "that [was/were] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 2 | During these years Mackmurdo absorbed the main aesthetic and moral influences that were to guide him through his life , not so much from immediate masters as from the writings of John Ruskin , Herbert Spencer [ qq.v. ] , and Auguste Comte . |
| 3 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 4 | Haines died 16 June 1860 , at Bombay harbour on a ship that was to take him to England , one week after his release from prison . |
| 5 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 6 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 7 | The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison . |
| 8 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 9 | The worst of it was that his headaches made him so angry ; it was a symptom of the poison that was killing him by degrees . |