Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing .
2 Pat was showing him The True Path in stylish fashion .
3 By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder .
4 ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues .
5 Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down .
6 Peter was showing him the large white sheet that was fixed to the fence .
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