Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the dog savaged the 10 year old while he was feeding him biscuits at his home in Tuffley , Gloucester . |
| 2 | PLO chairman Yassir Arafat was quoted in the Financial Times of Oct. 16 as telling US reporters that he was " consulted … day and night by phone " by Ashrawi and Husseini in Jerusalem and that , as they met with Baker in Washington on Oct. 10-11 , he was faxing them PLO endorsements of specific negotiating positions . |
| 3 | Finally , it got to the point where he was driving me nuts , because I could n't even find out the reason he was screaming so . |
| 4 | ‘ He was giving me work when no one else would and without him I would not have survived . |
| 5 | Dave , waltzing us along the undulating peat based roads of Mull , said he was giving us wave action practice before embarkation at Ulva Ferry . |
| 6 | But he was paying them sixpence above the rate so there was no problem to him . |
| 7 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |