Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | No relatives were in court to hear him . |
| 2 | David Strang , whose South African-based Glaswegian parents were in Toronto to see him become the first Briton to win a world indoors 1,500m medal , also has a connection with the Boyle squad . |
| 3 | Dad had complained about the threatening telephone call and no action had been taken ; but the man had obviously reported Russell to the police and here they were in force to arrest him . |
| 4 | I suggest that when you told my client he might get hurt you were in fact threatening him . |
| 5 | Kennedy was through White balked him without question a yard outside the area and Derek White who was booked only moments ago I 'm sure could be on his way to the dressing room early . |
| 6 | ‘ lt was … it was like spacemen took him . |
| 7 | The finger which he had burnt on the incinerator was in addition giving him trouble and would not tolerate pressure . |
| 8 | There was as little reason to delay Kerrison as there was at present to suspect him . |
| 9 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |