Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in school activities Ernest was energetic and successful , twice he ran away from home before the Kansas City Star was joined by him as a cub reporter in 1917 . |
| 2 | His lengthened features were expressionless , but just for a moment Rostov imagined that the bow was intended for him , and not for the Altun . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't think the poison was intended for him , do you , Mr Didier ? ’ asked Alice , with horror-stricken face . |
| 4 | ‘ Does he have any reason to believe the poison was intended for him ? ’ |
| 5 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 6 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 7 | He felt the bed dip slightly under her weight , and he knew she was kneeling beside him . |
| 8 | Was stripped by him of a number of important contracts . |
| 9 | The simplest and safest response was to agree with him , and then find a way of doing what you wanted later . |
| 10 | William Whewell in Cambridge was consulted by him over nomenclature , and took a great interest in his work , especially in his unease about the atomic theory with its inert and massy billiard-balls . |
| 11 | He could almost deceive himself that she was confiding in him . |
| 12 | Nothing was heard of him . |
| 13 | The man was heard of him . |
| 14 | Before a word of evidence was heard against him , his restaurant , Masons , was flogged off for the Crown Prosecution Service by receivers Touche Ross , who pocketed £73,000 in fees . |
| 15 | Nothing was heard from him after he faxed a message home giving arrangements for his mother to meet him to celebrate her 40th birthday . |
| 16 | Nothing further was heard from him on that subject but in the meantime Whitbread had made contact with a Bedford surgeon , Samuel Young , who embarked on an extended trial of the remedy over the course of the following three years . |
| 17 | From what I was given on him it was very easy to construct something from his guilt , his sense of self-degradation . |
| 18 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 19 | The Editor is grateful for the help that was given to him by catering personnel at MOD Stanmore who supplied the photographs and RAF Uxbridge . |
| 20 | The drama of the moment was recaptured in Perelandra , the second in the science-fiction trilogy , where Ransom remembers the strength which was given to him in a moment requiring supreme moral courage . |
| 21 | Jesus had no power of himself , he only communicated and performed through that which was given to him in relationship with the Father ( John 17:7f ) . |
| 22 | I ask whether this money too , which was given to him after the will was made , is understood to be included in the legacy . |
| 23 | Henry Calverley , a friend of the family , asked for the arrow to use as a trophy and it was given to him on condition he solemnly promised not to reveal its origin . |
| 24 | Pegging back Stan 's hormonal status was an essential part of treatment , and after discussing the case with the Cameron 's vet , an anti-male hormone injection was given to him . |
| 25 | Incidentally , the comedian Des O'Connor owns a guitar which was given to him by Holly , while Buddy was on tour in the UK . |
| 26 | Liz wanted to get on to the exciting bits , in which Job demanded why light was given to him that was in misery , and life to the bitter in soul : in which Job desired to argue with his God : in which the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind : but she knew it would be cheating to miss out the she-asses and skip to the livelier parts , so she plodded dully on with the dull narrative . |
| 27 | In an affidavit sworn on 17 December 1991 ‘ to assist the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in relation to the conduct of the [ defendant 's ] trial ’ Mr. Pantry stated that the addendum was in the case file which was given to him when he was assigned to prosecute . |
| 28 | claimed that his power was given to him by god , but everyone knew that the throne had been seized by his father . |
| 29 | He is resentful that no aid was given to him — another villager was given 3,000 rupees to repair his house because , says Kirtana , he knew the local member of the Orissa state parliament . |
| 30 | The museum began as a purely private collection by Gian Giacomo Poldi-Pezzoli in the last half of the nineteenth-century and was given by him to the city when he died in 1879 . |