Example sentences of "[prep] him [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then as David got up to order another drink she found that her anger towards him was dwindling ; after all , she could hardly accuse him of being uncaring when she was only too aware of the caring nature of his activities . |
| 2 | In front of him were squat columns of coins and a few cheques . |
| 3 | The woman sitting in front of him was right , he had to take responsibility for himself . |
| 4 | But now her need of him was desperate and unashamed , and their clandestine meetings were not enough . |
| 5 | The oppressive power of him was overwhelming . |
| 6 | She kept trying to tell herself that his was just another face in a long line of faces , but the nearness of him was agonising , and she was forced to face up to a bitter realisation . |
| 7 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 8 | The touch , the feel , the warmth of him was irresistible . |
| 9 | Suddenly , the very touch of him was obnoxious to her . |
| 10 | He recognised the man with the white handlebar moustache sitting high in a ridiculous Japanese jeep , Health Physics branch , and he heard the sharp horn blast before he saw that the road ahead of him was clear . |
| 11 | There 's no decent men in it and there 's no nudity of men it , even when he 's in it all you got to see of him was waist-high , you got to see a clips of his bum . |
| 12 | Her awareness of him was debilitating . |
| 13 | A cool , inner part of him was amused to observe how shocked he was . |
| 14 | It matched her mood , and her movements against him were desperate with hunger . |
| 15 | The accusations against him were unfounded ; all but 63 of his fellow deputies accepted that , in a vote on November 13th 1936 . |
| 16 | Hugh Despenser the younger had already petitioned the king on the grounds that the charges against him were erroneous and his condemnation illegal , particularly because so few prelates were present in the parliament which gave judgement . |
| 17 | At the assizes the evidence against him was overwhelming . |
| 18 | The opposition against him was straight prejudice , and a commentary upon the social conservatism of mid-Victorian trade unionists . |
| 19 | In another murder case , after a 19-year-old youth had been found guilty of a stabbing murder in Oakley Street , a woman who had given crucial evidence against him was ill-treated by neighbours and eventually turned out of her Oakley Street home amidst ‘ a terrible scene ’ . |
| 20 | Just two minutes and 10 seconds behind him was fellow driver , Ken Burgess from the P&O Roadtanks depot in King 's Lynn , who was still looking fit and cheerful as he ran along The Mall , with just over one more mile to go . |
| 21 | The voice from behind him was Irish — a broad flat Dublin accent — that Patrick thought sounded vaguely familiar . |
| 22 | They were huge ; there was a high ceiling , vaulted with cut slate on iron pillars , and standing where Quiss was , all the walls save for that immediately behind him were invisible , concealed by the rising steams , smokes and vapours from hundreds of pots , pans , vats , stoves , kettles , skillets , grills , tubs and cauldrons . |
| 23 | The men behind him were brawny and short-haired , their bare arms reddened by sun and wind and their bare feet wet and muddy . |
| 24 | Losing your temper with him was unforgivable . |
| 25 | ‘ Then suddenly I just could n't take it any longer — the knowledge that the only effect I had on you was sexual , the only way I could influence you was physically , whereas you loved Jones , as I thought ; your relationship with him was emotional … |
| 26 | There was , however , nothing phony about his powers of connoisseurship , and looking at pictures with him was fascinating . |
| 27 | Working with him — and my own experience with him was brief — was a joy . |
| 28 | She was intrigued and , as her meeting with him was social , she found nothing odd about the offer of a drink . |
| 29 | ‘ My life with him was short , ’ his wife said , ‘ but clear and bright as a crystal . ’ |
| 30 | That he was regretting his impulse in inviting her to spend the weekend with him was obvious . |