Example sentences of "were [verb] he a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 2 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 3 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 4 | The new publishers were giving him a launch party and wanted names for the guest list . |
| 5 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 8 | As Coleman 's real job was to file back-channel reports on the operations of DEA Nicosia , the DIA was hardly likely to have told Hurley that they were lending him a full-time agent . |
| 9 | Eliot 's concerns were to make him a natural contributor to The Rock where the theme of the city would again be combined with a new modification of the theme of the savage . |
| 10 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |