Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was why they had all been calling him ‘ sir ’ . |
| 2 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 3 | Little enough was left him now , but at least his dignity remained , though no one but himself could see it . |
| 4 | All eyes turned to see him twisting his triangular hat as if that action alone was holding him together ; his face white and despairing . |
| 5 | She had not been expecting him . |
| 6 | Tsu Ma 's eyes had never left Li Shai Tung 's face , yet they had not been seeing him . |
| 7 | The punters , who have by now learned what is good for them , have not been opposing him . |
| 8 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 9 | Could he really make a million before he was forty , or had Becky just been teasing him ? |
| 10 | He told her he missed her and his family , and that the prince his brother would shortly be paying him a visit . |
| 11 | Sue , no doubt , will soon be proving him wrong . |
| 12 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 13 | I promised that his further education would be no burden to them , and that after the war , I would see to it that he received a free college education , which should not be denied him , but all I got was ‘ You take ‘ im , Mr Burton , you take ‘ im . ’ |
| 14 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 15 | We had with us a Danakil from the Awash Station , not only as guide but also as hostage , and would not be releasing him until he found a replacement from the next tribe . |
| 16 | I sometimes think they may not be paying him . |
| 17 | Moreover , feelings lying dormant will have already produced an individual who is troubled , unhappy and anxious , and the individuals behaviour will already be moving him or her inexorably deeper into emotional and social despair . |
| 18 | It had lasted longer , but then she had still been touching him . |
| 19 | The Brigadier had still been bawling him out when Sartini had spotted the car . |
| 20 | ‘ It could n't still be bothering him . ’ |
| 21 | We do n't expect it to cause any problems , and we will still be meeting him for talks some time over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 22 | We were glad we 'd probably be seeing him again some time , unlike some who had n't got out while the going was good . |
| 23 | Something though was eluding him . |
| 24 | The important thing now was to let him save face . |
| 25 | Afterwards Neil Cochrane thought that he should have struck Havvie down then , but shock at learning who McAllister really was had him in its grip , and he let the shameful accusation go by . |
| 26 | He could not know that Sophia was taking a keen interest in him and had even been considering him — provided he were not divorced or otherwise unsuitable-as a husband for her sister . |
| 27 | Doctors have today been examining him again to try to assess whether there 's been any damage to his sight . |
| 28 | I had n't been expecting him quite so soon . |
| 29 | You have n't been seeing him regular ? ’ |
| 30 | They had n't been to see him today . |