Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been calling him often , at least a couple of times every week . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 4 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 5 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 6 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 7 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 8 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 9 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 10 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 11 | As long as she 'd been fighting him there had still been a hope that she might eventually emerge the victor . |
| 12 | so Richard 's crying because he 'd been hitting him the face . |
| 13 | Now the forces of law and order that left vandals to do as they pleased were putting him behind bars . |
| 14 | He qualified as a barrister in 1980 and within a year was an attorney-at-law in commercial insurance litigation which he claimed was making him £500,000 a year . |
| 15 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 16 | A member of the group mentioned that an uncle of his , a retired coal miner , had been telling him about Highlander , and it was suggested that Highlander might be willing to help in some way . |
| 17 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 18 | The country was beckoning again , and his friend van Rappard had been telling him about Drenthe , a remote moorland region in the north of Holland which was starting to attract artists . |
| 19 | If only he had listened to what his friend Dave Forbes had been telling him … |
| 20 | People had been telling him he had the wrong attitude since he was potty trained . |
| 21 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 22 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | With the fathers of the lads who had been raiding him , he swore solemnly before the earl and the other Lords of Council to abstain from mutual injuries and molestation , under a penalty of £500 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Meola accused Arsenal striker Ian Wright of ‘ talking trash ’ and claimed England players had been calling him fat in exchanges as bitter as the Boston Tea Party . |
| 28 | The newspapers had been trying him ever since his arrest . |
| 29 | Finally , one of the doctors who had been advising him prescribed complete rest of the voice for a full two weeks before his next recital . |
| 30 | 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 . |