Example sentences of "been [verb] him [prep] a " 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 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |