Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 4 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 8 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 9 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |