Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
2 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
3 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
4 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
5 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
6 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
7 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
8 | But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex . |
9 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
10 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
11 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
12 | And romance — although ideally , if she had been advising him as a florist , she would have suggested roses instead of the more exotic lilies and orchids he had chosen . |
13 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |
14 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
15 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
16 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
17 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
18 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
19 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
20 | Coughlin says North 's only constructive contribution to Waite 's Lebanon mission had been to introduce him to an undercover agent working in Lebanon for British and American intelligence . |
21 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
22 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
23 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |