Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] him [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of officers in London today were pressing him to ignore the report altogether . |
| 2 | And the studio floor was covered with meat , and they had this dog they 'd starved for three days with contact mics all over its stomach … and they were recording him eating the meat ! |
| 3 | He said to Miriam , who was helping him dress the wounds of those hurt in the recent engagement : " The poor Collector has erysipelas . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'll see I have n't let things slide , ’ he said to Carrie , when she was helping him put the shelves straight . |
| 5 | Wexford thought irritably , and he thought also of his own daughter who was making him scrape the bottom of his pocket so that at some future possible never-never time she might be able to smile without restraint before the cameras . |
| 6 | Mr Major , he said , was like a ‘ runaway train rushing headlong down the track ’ when the whole country was telling him to stop the Government 's ‘ privatisation madness ’ . |