Example sentences of "[be] [verb] his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been to see his girlfriend in Southampton and was on his way to see his parents in Sheffield . |
| 2 | Filmer , I was interested to see , had been to see his horse before departure . |
| 3 | Graham Hunsley , defending , said he was now off hard drugs , had been to see his doctor about the problem and was hoping to undergo treatment at an addiction centre . |
| 4 | Cronenberg 's way of filming the unfilmable has been to arrange his material in a pulp noir format , laced with hallucinations , corrupt characters , and local colour ( local being studio-recreated Tangier ) . |
| 5 | Fribble , who had been eating his supper with industrious pleasure , said , ‘ I never heard that story until lately , you know . |
| 6 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 7 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 8 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 9 | I had been given his address by friends in Britain and now took a taxi to his flat , a couple of miles from the hotel but still in the older part of the city of Buda . |
| 10 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |
| 11 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |
| 12 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 13 | cos he 's been devoting his life to his wife more |
| 14 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
| 15 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 16 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 17 | Transport Secretary , Paul Channon , has been explaining his actions over Lockerbie to MPs . |
| 18 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 19 | Francis Graham Dixon has been operating his gallery in Clerkenwell for five years . |
| 20 | He could have been warning his receptionist off the line or switching off — or on — a recording device . |
| 21 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |
| 22 | Had he been expressing his doubts about her to Matt ? |
| 23 | Billy has been told his job with social services at Essex Council is safe — even if he becomes an Essex girl . |
| 24 | He had in fact been told his days in the sport were over . |
| 25 | RIGHT : Chief teacher Kenny Roberts has been scaring his pupils for years with his killer look . |
| 26 | Police are lionking his attack with another at a cattery at Hill Grove Farm in Minster Lovell , Oxforsshire . |
| 27 | But , as she all at once realised that he thought , actually thought , that she had been pumping his secretary about him , so a tide of pink warmed her cheeks , and , ‘ Nothing ! ’ she exclaimed hotly , more startlement hitting her as it dawned on her that this then was the reason for his fury when he 'd seen them together . |
| 28 | Given that , in 1837 , Buxton initially opposed an immediate move against apprenticeship it is doubtful how much deference would have been shown his leadership by the convention , but he had anyway lost his seat at the recent election . |
| 29 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 30 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |