Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | It says much for the calibre of Mrs Kirkley that , after greeting Aggie with an inclination of her head and a smile , she looked at Millie , who was handing her the present , and said , ‘ Oh , thank you very much , Millie ; I 'm sure they 'll be delightful . |
| 33 | He was showing me the ships that were lost in the battle . |
| 34 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 35 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 36 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 37 | Ace might not love her , and he was furious at having his hand forced by William Ash , but there was something she could maybe start to build on , and that was telling him the truth about her birth . |
| 38 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 39 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
| 40 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 41 | I was telling you the truth . |
| 42 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 43 | He was feeling what the laser would have felt , had it been of flesh and bone . |
| 44 | The main thrust of the campaign , designed by the United Kingdom-based advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi , was to reveal what the government believed the scenario would be if the white electorate voted " no " . |
| 45 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |
| 46 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
| 47 | Byers was offering him the bottle . |
| 48 | Chance , fate or whatever you want to call it was offering me the opportunity to finally get you out of my system . |
| 49 | He was offering me the trip of a lifetime , and all I had to do was take care of the meals . |
| 50 | He was offering her the protection of his house and name . |
| 51 | Joe Meek 's last big hit was Have I the Right by the Honeycombs . |