Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 3 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 4 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 5 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 6 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 7 | But I followed him , and I have been following him since that day . |
| 8 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 9 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A round the world yachtsman has been telling tales of the sea to a group of schoolchildren who 've been supporting him on his latest adventure . |
| 12 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 13 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 16 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 17 | At the end of the recording , the woman who had been showering him with questions observed the following : ‘ I have never done such a difficult interview . |
| 18 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 19 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 20 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 21 | Latterly they had been feeding him by dropping his fodder from a loft above the stall , and lowering down pails of water on a string . |
| 22 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 23 | At the same time , Peachcake , if worries about the future are what 's been keeping him from showing his feelings for you and he 's as much in love with you as you appear to be with him , there 's to be no hasty wedding . |