Example sentences of "been [verb] him [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
6 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
7 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
8 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
9 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |
14 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
15 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
16 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |