Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I like him , I was watching him on the telly the other day , I think he seemed nice . |
| 32 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 33 | I was beating him in the storyline , but he was , in reality , desperate to win all the races . |
| 34 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 35 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 36 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
| 37 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |