Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 2 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
| 5 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As she spoke she was laying him a place at the kitchen table , and serving him his meal . |
| 8 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
| 9 | Probably nothing , he was thinking , she 's only winding me up , and the thought that she was gave him a pleasurable kick . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 12 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He thought she was giving him an unmistakable message of availability . |
| 15 | He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind . |
| 16 | He needed to ; it was doing him a kindness , putting iron into his backbone . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |