Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nurse who assessed Mr Brown decided that his arthritis and the hernia were causing him pain , restricting his mobility and might endanger his safety . |
| 2 | It was n't long before Wall Street wooed Koons away with the prospect of higher wages as a commodities broker , which the then-aspiring artist claimed he needed to produce sculptures that were costing him $3,000 a shot . |
| 3 | By 1948 , 36 manufacturers ( including EMI , GEC and Marconi in Britain , and Philips in the Netherlands ) were paying him royalties for domestic radio sets . |
| 4 | They were fixing him breakfast . |
| 5 | She was laughing when you were asking him questions . |
| 6 | If I did n't want it he would say that he was keeping me and the least I could do was give him sex . |
| 7 | If the least word of mine was to cause him trouble , I do n't know what I 'd do . |
| 8 | And it was fine when Busacher was paying him attention , rebuking him for talking during someone else 's numbers , railing at him for rudeness , for lack of participation . |
| 9 | In the 1130s the Anglo-Norman poet Gaimar [ q.v. ] was misnaming him Edgar , and telling a rousing tale of his adventures , complete with dialogue . |
| 10 | The one good thing she 'd done was to give him Claire as a sister . |
| 11 | But then the dog savaged the 10 year old while he was feeding him biscuits at his home in Tuffley , Gloucester . |
| 12 | Duke Michael was holding him prisoner somewhere in the Castle of Zenda . |
| 13 | All the way there she was asking him questions : ‘ What are you going to do ? |
| 14 | Strange thoughts about his recent past were torn from his subconscious mind , as if the thing was asking him questions . |
| 15 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 16 | The resolve had held , but the orange juice was giving him stomach ache . |
| 17 | The last mine was giving him trouble , partly because his position on the wall was so insecure . |
| 18 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 19 | She was reading him parts of a letter from some fellow with a foreign name . |
| 20 | He qualified as a barrister in 1980 and within a year was an attorney-at-law in commercial insurance litigation which he claimed was making him £500,000 a year . |
| 21 | It was uncertain whether she was offering him tea or dinner or nothing , since the time she gave was a quarter to six and she would never have had anyone to drinks . |