Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [v-ing] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 5 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |