Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The new publishers were giving him a launch party and wanted names for the guest list . |
| 4 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 5 | And wh what they did , they carried out this test and they er in American and they erm were giving him the pills . |
| 6 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 7 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As it turned out , I was doing him a service . ’ |
| 16 | I was doing him a favour looking after the house over Christmas . ’ |
| 17 | He needed to ; it was doing him a kindness , putting iron into his backbone . |
| 18 | He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind . |
| 19 | In the Ascot race Brown Windsor was giving him a stone and finished 5 ¾ lengths behind . |
| 20 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 23 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ All I did was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 29 | As she spoke she was laying him a place at the kitchen table , and serving him his meal . |
| 30 | Because Zeno was edgy , Carla was telling him a story . |