Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 3 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 6 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 7 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 8 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 9 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 10 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 11 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |