Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( This has been recovered by him in the price to the retailer of £690 . ) |
| 32 | Pinkie laughed , spraying a little of the brandy which had been brought to him onto the laden air . |
| 33 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 34 | He had no idea that the bomb — with its sophisticated detonating system and the compact radio transmitter — had been smuggled to him by a devious route , via Finland and Germany . |
| 35 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 36 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 37 | Kevin 's car will run in the colours of Budweiser , and his sponsorship comes from Gilbeys NI who have been associated with him in the past . |
| 38 | He had then been dragged behind the vehicle and held down while the man who had been sitting beside him during the journey drove the car over his legs . |
| 39 | His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating . |
| 40 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 41 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 42 | Had she really been sent to him by the spirit of True Valiance himself , to test his chivalry and honour ? |
| 43 | The note which had been sent into him at the factory had said that he was to meet them at eight o'clock on Boxing Night . |
| 44 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 45 | To the extent that the Secretary of State thereafter enforces such right in respect of payments made to a Party , other than the Lead Organization , then that Party will promptly refund such amounts to the Lead Organization on receipt of an auditor 's certificate that these amounts have been paid by him to the Secretary of State . |
| 46 | Written in careful English , it had told her little except that her name had been suggested to him by a Kevin Roberts , who had tutored briefly at her old art school , and knew their London gallery . |
| 47 | She has a career in legal reform related to children 's defence and legal aid , ‘ stood by ’ her husband in the controversy over his personal behaviour , and has been suggested by him as a possible member of his cabinet . |
| 48 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 49 | By 9 January 1177 he had besieged Dax , which had been held against him by the Viscount of Dax and Bigorre , and taken it ; he had besieged Bayonne , which the Viscount of Bayonne had held against him , and taken it ; he had marched right up to " the Gate of Spain " at Cize and there he had captured and demolished the castle of St Pierre . |