Example sentences of "[vb past] been [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 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If only he had listened to what his friend Dave Forbes had been telling him … |
| 18 | People had been telling him he had the wrong attitude since he was potty trained . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The newspapers had been trying him ever since his arrest . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 30 | The two guards who had been holding him released him and stood back . |