Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him to know that she was still very much sexually attracted to him was bad enough — but she was terrified of Ross discovering that her feelings ran much deeper . |
| 2 | Scattered around him were complete skeletons reminding him of when his country was able to produce crops and feed animals . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 5 | The remarks that had been made about him were confusing . |
| 6 | ‘ The reports we received on him were excellent and his contract was also coming to an end . |
| 7 | A. McCormick summarizes the general opinion thus : ‘ probably the very crimes attributed to him were essential to terrorize his gang and bring them to subjection . |
| 8 | In the case of lions , not only was a rival male likely to be a close relative , but the costs of physically competing with him were high and the benefits low . |
| 9 | ‘ I was irritated because all I got from him was yes-and-no answers . |
| 10 | All she got from him was cold looks and icy dismissal . |
| 11 | that the defendant took care to inform himself , from others who were in a position to provide the information , as to whether the deposit would constitute an offence and had no reason to suppose that the information given to him was false or misleading ; |
| 12 | When Father Barnes reiterated that he was perfectly all right and that Mrs McBride who did for him was due at ten thirty , he did n't persist . |
| 13 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 14 | That the cottage meant as much to her as it did to him was obvious , but it did n't occur to him that she might have been the intruder who had broken in . |
| 15 | Yeah , but I think all the things they said about him were true , I hate the man I do . |
| 16 | He felt slightly uncomfortable , having seen three men in lounge suits on his way back from the bathroom ; the only clothes he had with him were casual ones . |