Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind . |
| 32 | In the Ascot race Brown Windsor was giving him a stone and finished 5 ¾ lengths behind . |
| 33 | When he straightened up , Pion was giving him a puzzled look . |
| 34 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 35 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 36 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
| 37 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 38 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 39 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
| 40 | So , Himmler was giving him the same powers as he had given Max Radl for Operation Eagle . |
| 41 | He thought she was giving him an unmistakable message of availability . |
| 42 | I told him I knew Marc was going to listen to him , would help him , that all he had to do was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ All I did was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 44 | And all the while , while he was handing him the plate of meat and bread , and while he was holding the cup to the trembling lips , a little silvery voice was beating inside Fergus 's head : this is all wrong . |
| 45 | 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 . ’ |
| 46 | Lee had risen and moved to where he sat at the table and was showing him the completed unicorn 's head . |
| 47 | Pat was showing him The True Path in stylish fashion . |
| 48 | Peter was showing him the large white sheet that was fixed to the fence . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 51 | As she spoke she was laying him a place at the kitchen table , and serving him his meal . |
| 52 | Because Zeno was edgy , Carla was telling him a story . |
| 53 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 54 | Ace might not love her , and he was furious at having his hand forced by William Ash , but there was something she could maybe start to build on , and that was telling him the truth about her birth . |
| 55 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 56 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 57 | James was foiled mainly by the determination of the European powers , including the Warrior Pope Julius II , to fight one another instead , and certainly not by any substantial doubt on the part of his subjects that a king from Scotland was overreaching himself ; indeed , his popularity was to bring him an enormous Scottish army for the campaign against the English in 1513 which ended in the disaster of Flodden . |
| 58 | Probably nothing , he was thinking , she 's only winding me up , and the thought that she was gave him a pleasurable kick . |
| 59 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |
| 60 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |