Example sentences of "[vb past] he [was/were] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 2 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
| 3 | She thought he was throwing her a sop and it steeled her . |
| 4 | He probably was k feeling kind because he thought he was giving you a nice stick . |
| 5 | But yesterday he announced he was calling it a day . |