Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | All her senses were highly tuned to him . |
| 2 | Dr. Zúñiga was warned that the police might seek reprisals against him , but although he informed the authorities of this , novo specific measures of protection were apparently offered to him . |
| 3 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 4 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 5 | That was not in itself a new idea , but its content and significance were greatly enlarged by him . |
| 6 | His great technical knowledge and ability were combined with thoroughness ; all important engineering drawings were personally approved by him and all new features were tested on prototypes before being put into quantity production . |
| 7 | They were just wrapped around him . |
| 8 | Dried specimens of any sort were always kept by him and roots of many more . |
| 9 | His suits always went to the cleaner 's on time , and his meals were always cooked for him . |
| 10 | The Bettiscombe skull , preserved in the house at that time , was said to be that of a negro slave , so devoted to John Frederick that it emitted the most ghastly screams if it were ever parted from him . |
| 11 | However , Hermann says that he was generous to them , and the Bury Psalter and the Bury Gospels , both of which seem to have been produced in Christ Church Canterbury , were possibly commissioned by him as gifts . |
| 12 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues of Ightham , were also granted to him by papal indult . |
| 13 | The methods used by Walpole to derive the above bounds were later applied by him to the case of transversely isotropic inclusions in a homogeneous matrix . |
| 14 | It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ . |
| 15 | But of all the artists employed , Minton contributed the most : twenty-three of Lehmann 's books bore Minton dustjackets and four of these were substantially illustrated by him . |
| 16 | Mansell , who had rushed away to the Williams garage where the doors were immediately closed behind him , later emerged red-faced with anger to storm to the stewards ' tower . |
| 17 | ‘ Most people in Wickrithe would say we were well rid of him , ’ she said . |
| 18 | The same in an appropriate case would apply if the monies were simply advanced to him . |
| 19 | He was often directed to see to the ploughing , tilling and sowing of assarts , waste and other lands belonging to the king in the forest , and cattle were sometimes sent to him to be fattened on the forest pastures . |
| 20 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 21 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience the Sun in the sky on the Sun , he might , even more implausibly , say : ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 22 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience other people 's pain , he might say , ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 23 | Her hands were actually extended towards him . |