Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 2 | He once broke off a phone call saying the police were waiting to take him on a tour of one of their up-to-date rape suites . |
| 3 | Then , as she nodded in agreement , he added viciously , ‘ Were you already planning , even as that photograph was being taken , how you were going to fleece him of every penny he possessed ? ’ |
| 4 | At bonus time , his superiors were going to reward him with a fat check . |
| 5 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 6 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |