Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | Worse , Riley had been chiding him for not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 3 | Stark 's confidence appears to have been at a low ebb but the Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , has been reminding him of his form earlier in the season : at the Dubai Sevens , which the Scots won ; in the A international against Italy in Melrose when the Boroughmuir winger had a hand in both tries ; and in his senior international debut against Ireland at Murrayfield , when he scored one try and was heavily involved in the other from Tony Stanger . |
| 4 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 5 | Been seeing him for years . ’ |
| 6 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 7 | After all , you are seeing him in ten minutes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 9 | The politicians around him are encouraging him in his insistence on the levy because they want to stop Patros . ’ |
| 10 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 11 | At the same time , Peachcake , if worries about the future are what 's been keeping him from showing his feelings for you and he 's as much in love with you as you appear to be with him , there 's to be no hasty wedding . |
| 12 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 13 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 14 | I did n't have another bridesmaid , nor did I have Southall in a cart , which Clare had been training him for , as a surprise for me . |
| 15 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 16 | At the end of the recording , the woman who had been showering him with questions observed the following : ‘ I have never done such a difficult interview . |
| 17 | The thing to remember is your last little note is that it seems to be that they 're accusing him of blasphemy as it was said . |
| 18 | Right , they 're accusing him to be claiming to be God and they actually say they actually say their decision is that he 's guilty and should be put to death , they 've condemned him to death . |
| 19 | They 're keeping him in hospital for another few days to carry out more tests . ’ |
| 20 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 21 | ‘ They 're tearing him into four , ’ said Snodgrass . |
| 22 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 23 | You 're paying him for knowing how to do it . |
| 24 | I told you they want to do another X-ray , and they 're sending him to Carlisle for that , the Cumberland Infirmary . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We 're taking him with us . ’ |
| 26 | GUIL : We 're taking him to England . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're taking him to Disneyland , me and John 's other friends . |
| 28 | That 's right a letter that we 're taking him to court |
| 29 | They 're putting him on my tummy — he 's red all over ( not just his nose ! ) and completely bald . |
| 30 | Anyway , they 're putting him in disgrace . |