Example sentences of "[was/were] giving he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new publishers were giving him a launch party and wanted names for the guest list . |
| 2 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 3 | Very deliberately , and as if it were giving him great pain , the German who had said little began to speak . |
| 4 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
| 5 | " Habib Olahi thought part of the blame lay with Iran 's allies — particulary the Americans and the British , who were giving him differing advice . |
| 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 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 9 | So it was seven per cent that they were giving him not ten per cent ? |
| 10 | compressed funding so you were giving him too much |
| 11 | And wh what they did , they carried out this test and they er in American and they erm were giving him the pills . |
| 12 | In the Ascot race Brown Windsor was giving him a stone and finished 5 ¾ lengths behind . |
| 13 | He was sitting next to Charity , however , and she was giving him her sole attention . |
| 14 | Spartan Missile had made a bad mistake at the eighteenth and Thorne was giving him plenty of time to recover . |
| 15 | The last mine was giving him trouble , partly because his position on the wall was so insecure . |
| 16 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 17 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
| 18 | When he straightened up , Pion was giving him a puzzled look . |
| 19 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 20 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 21 | He ignored the pointed look the DDI was giving him . |
| 22 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 23 | The resolve had held , but the orange juice was giving him stomach ache . |
| 24 | He thought she was giving him an unmistakable message of availability . |
| 25 | ‘ He was speaking quietly , and MacQuillan was giving him all his attention . |
| 26 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 27 | He was looking a little pale and the lines of strain around his mouth betrayed the pain his arm was giving him . |
| 28 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
| 29 | Mr Malik was giving him some very odd looks . |
| 30 | So , Himmler was giving him the same powers as he had given Max Radl for Operation Eagle . |