Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] he a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 2 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 3 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 4 | The new publishers were giving him a launch party and wanted names for the guest list . |
| 5 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
| 6 | Willy-nilly , he was now the star of The Hooded Owl , and the rest of the cast were giving him a taste of the treatment afforded to stars . |
| 7 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 8 | As Coleman 's real job was to file back-channel reports on the operations of DEA Nicosia , the DIA was hardly likely to have told Hurley that they were lending him a full-time agent . |
| 9 | Eliot 's concerns were to make him a natural contributor to The Rock where the theme of the city would again be combined with a new modification of the theme of the savage . |
| 10 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 11 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 12 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 13 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 14 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 15 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 16 | He did go back to London ; he did defy the might of Zanuck , but the canny Alex Korda in London stitched up the contract later which , yes , was to give him a million dollars , but also tie him to some terrible films . |
| 17 | Carrie was taken by surprise at his question and her first instinct was to give him a sharp reply , but she nodded instead , catching the look of concern in Don 's deep brown eyes . |
| 18 | Laying herself down beside Cad again in the hot room under the single sheet , she instructed her sister carefully , how she was to find Tommaso Talvi in town the next day , to come across him as if by accident , and then , if no one was listening , she was to give him a message . |
| 19 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 20 | He needed to ; it was doing him a kindness , putting iron into his backbone . |
| 21 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |
| 22 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
| 23 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |
| 24 | He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind . |
| 25 | In the Ascot race Brown Windsor was giving him a stone and finished 5 ¾ lengths behind . |
| 26 | When he straightened up , Pion was giving him a puzzled look . |
| 27 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 28 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |
| 29 | In 1168 Geoffrey stood on the threshold of a long and turbulent career which was to earn him a great reputation as a knight both in Europe and on crusade and to help lift his dynasty out of the ranks of the barons of Poitou and place it firmly among the leading princes of Christendom . |
| 30 | As she spoke she was laying him a place at the kitchen table , and serving him his meal . |