Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 10 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 14 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 15 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |