Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] 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 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 3 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 4 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 5 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 6 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 7 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 8 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 11 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 12 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 13 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |