Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] him [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel the muscles of his arms jump where her hands were touching him and exulted in the power she seemed to have over him . |
| 2 | He spun around , dodged another blow from the puzzled guard , and sped back towards the circle , passing on the way the dryads who were pursuing him and leaving them as disorganised as a set of skittles . |
| 3 | A few men at the bar were watching him and seemed to be laughing at him . |
| 4 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 5 | When Lawrence spoke to him , the tall , white-faced youth did not look to see who was addressing him but strode on , chin high . |
| 6 | A nurse was scolding him and telling him to sit down and be quiet . |
| 7 | When they started making love she protested a little , but he thought this was just talk , since she was kissing him and caressing him . |
| 8 | But I was admiring him and remembering Francis ; how he had been , once ; what it felt like to touch and be touched by him . |
| 9 | He has told me he loves my daughter and bitterly regrets the affair which , he says , he could n't stop because the girl was blackmailing him and threatening to tell his wife . |
| 10 | She was still pondering this , as well as thinking about Faye Hamilton and the long difficult journey through pregnancy that lay ahead , when she became aware that Dr Russell was laughing to himself — just a quiet chuckle at first , but as he realised she was watching him and saw her bemused expression the sound grew to a full-throated and resonant guffaw . |
| 11 | I noticed last night when I was bathing him and covered in his ears this one |
| 12 | He threw himself almost sideways through the gap , rolling across the ground as much to put out the fire that was burning him as to lessen the momentum of the fall . |