Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Angie … ’ and she stood aside to let him in , lost for words , then followed him to the kitchen , as if he were showing her the way . |
| 2 | He is giving it the look . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's teaching you the verses , is n't he ? ’ |
| 4 | So he 's shouting it the boy like . |
| 5 | And he 's still , one bloke went bankrupt , and he only got amount off him , he 's telling me the other week , he 's , he 's still five thousand pounds owing to him , though , work he did twelve months ago |
| 6 | " Do n't know whether he 's showing us the gun because he 's afraid of us , or so that we 'll be afraid of him . " |
| 7 | She knew he was leaving her the next day , perhaps for ever . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 10 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 11 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 12 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 13 | And with that sarcastic tone she had always disliked he said he was giving her the answers : he ha.i acquired a duplicate set of keys to help in his research for Eliot . |
| 14 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |
| 15 | Swinging himself into the saddle , Guy turned Chalon 's head towards Winchester and began to consider the various means whereby he could ensure that Isabel belonged to him while he was giving her the time she needed . |
| 16 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 17 | He was showing me the ships that were lost in the battle . |
| 18 | He was offering me the trip of a lifetime , and all I had to do was take care of the meals . |
| 19 | He was offering her the protection of his house and name . |