Example sentences of "been [verb] him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 2 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 3 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 4 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 5 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 6 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 7 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 8 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 9 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 10 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 11 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |