Example sentences of "[been] [verb] to him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 2 | This was the fate of deaf and dumb adults and children until towards the end of the sixteenth century , when Pedro Ponce de Leon , a Benedictine monk of the monastery of San Salvador near Burgos in Northern Spain , succeeded in teaching language to some deaf and dumb children , who had been entrusted to him for schooling by wealthy families , as deaf and dumb minors were legally incapable of inheriting their parents estates . |
| 3 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 4 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 5 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 6 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 7 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |