Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone knew that the rules were being stretched , but it took a skilled operator to persuade an official to ignore evidence that was blatantly paraded before him . |
| 2 | Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest . |
| 3 | She would probably be quite prepared to believe someone else was responsible as she was so besotted with him . |
| 4 | He did n't approve of smoking or drinking and my Dad was so dominated by him that he would hide his pipe behind a cushion — once setting fire to the chair — for fear of incurring his wrath . |
| 5 | It made something sting behind her eyes as she thought now that it was all finished for him . |
| 6 | The NYMPH Salmacis was especially besotted by him , and Ovid ( 43BC-AD118 ) wrote that she ‘ prayed that the twain might become one flesh , ( from Metamorphoses ) . |
| 7 | In 1326 he advised the king against an attempt to divorce his wife and was especially commended by him to Hugh le Despenser the younger [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | The contrast between his treatment of Morpurgo — the occasional condescending coin — and Dysart 's — a roof over his head and some honest employment — was obviously lost on him . |
| 9 | Since it was obviously expected of him , he took his right hand off the wheel and put his arm around her shoulders . |
| 10 | The threat from Catholics was constantly raised by him , for example , when he linked the failures of foreign policies with the activities of domestic papists ( 1625 ) and raised the bogy of their ‘ swarming ’ in the suburbs , claiming that in his neighbourhood of Covent Garden they outnumbered Protestants by three to one and had set up an autonomous community too strong for ‘ us the justices ’ to ‘ cast out ’ . |
| 11 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 12 | Grandson was with Edward I during his visit to France and Aquitaine in 1286–9 , and was constantly employed by him in business at the courts of France and Aragon during those years . |
| 13 | It comes in from the number nine , gets the goal but it was brilliantly created for him there by and it 's a quick response by right on the fifty minute mark , we 've had an hour of the match and it 's now three one . |
| 14 | So that when , one evening , Sally-Anne , radiant in pink and silver , a fortune in pearls around her neck , the mere sight of which made Havvie salivate internally , was gently led by him into a conservatory — at the Keppels ' this time — and proposed to , there was only one answer which she could give him , and that , of course , was yes . |
| 15 | She might be able to convince herself that the momentary flash of madness she 'd experienced , in thinking that she was falling in love with Luke Calder , was merely the result of stress , but it did n't change the fact that she was greatly attracted to him , and that was where the true danger lay . |
| 16 | It is a terrible thing to be clung to by a sick child if you are not used to it ; Fleury was very shaken by the power of the protective instinct which was suddenly aroused in him , although to no avail , for there was nothing he could do . |
| 17 | He had started in Norman Shaw 's office and was much encouraged by him . |
| 18 | And at the end , when they flipped on the lights , ‘ everyone was just riveted to him . |
| 19 | His tireless work for the cause of Albanian nationalism was rewarded in 1913 with the first of two enquiries on the point of whether he would be prepared to accept the throne of Albania , if it was formally offered to him . |
| 20 | Whatever organisation was possible at village level was usually directed against him . |
| 21 | His financial dealings led to a number of lawsuits and accusations of fraud , but nothing was ever proved against him . |
| 22 | He was defeated only four times in a long career , ‘ retiring with a fortune of £70,000 , almost all of which was promptly lost for him ’ . |
| 23 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |
| 24 | Of course now he did n't have to walk quite so far to do his searching ; but a similar kind of dedication was still required of him , for The Bar contained in a way the streets of the whole city , there were men there from all the different parts of it . |
| 25 | Mike went down to assist Dave Lister in sorting out the rope which was still attached to him , and Dave moved along and up the bergschrund to aid Steve in routefinding as he downclimbed , diagonally to the right , towards a narrower slot which he might cross unroped . |
| 26 | But the impact of Monet on the American pictorial imagination goes beyond this ; indeed it could be said that the whole Abstract Expressionist movement was deeply influenced by him . |
| 27 | The situation was quickly explained to him . |
| 28 | David was warming himself by a fire in the centre of the hut ; he was almost nude and had never worn anything other than a coarse blanket which was slightly tied round him to cover his back . |
| 29 | Sibbald published his Scotia Illustrata , a natural history of Scotland , in 1684 , and one of the plants he described and figured was later named after him . |
| 30 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |