Example sentences of "[been] [verb] him the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch .
2 For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death .
3 As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted .
4 A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth .
5 so Richard 's crying because he 'd been hitting him the face .
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