Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] he [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 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 .
13 This was costing him a small fortune .
14 However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ .
15 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 .
16 Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on .
17 Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it .
18 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 .
19 He needed to ; it was doing him a kindness , putting iron into his backbone .
20 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 .
21 As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’
22 I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’
23 He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind .
24 In the Ascot race Brown Windsor was giving him a stone and finished 5 ¾ lengths behind .
25 When he straightened up , Pion was giving him a puzzled look .
26 He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients .
27 Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted .
28 Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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