Example sentences of "[be] [verb] him [prep] [art] " 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 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 3 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 4 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 5 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 6 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 7 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 8 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 9 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 10 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 11 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 12 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 13 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They wo n't take any notice of us , Baptiste said : the ambulance is round the front , I saw it , and they 're carrying him into the downstairs bit . |
| 16 | They 're casting him as a woman . |
| 17 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 18 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 19 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 20 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 21 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 22 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 23 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 24 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 25 | But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex . |
| 26 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |
| 27 | Even Radio 1 are tipping him as the favourite ! |
| 28 | You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no-talent support act . |
| 29 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 30 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |