Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were leading him the wrong way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 4 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 5 | The new publishers were giving him a launch party and wanted names for the guest list . |
| 6 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 9 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 10 | And wh what they did , they carried out this test and they er in American and they erm were giving him the pills . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 14 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 15 | But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost . |
| 16 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 17 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 25 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 26 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 27 | He needed to ; it was doing him a kindness , putting iron into his backbone . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
| 30 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |