Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Fennell was worried because he thought nobody came to meet you , ’ he said , and she knew by his expression that the ancient tyrant had been upbraiding him on this account . |
| 10 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 11 | I did n't have another bridesmaid , nor did I have Southall in a cart , which Clare had been training him for , as a surprise for me . |
| 12 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 13 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 14 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 15 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 16 | Latterly they had been feeding him by dropping his fodder from a loft above the stall , and lowering down pails of water on a string . |
| 17 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 18 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 19 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 20 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 21 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 22 | Surely here was the evidence that Jaq 's Emperor-sent impetus had been leading him toward . |
| 23 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 24 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |