Example sentences of "been [v-ing] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 2 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 3 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 4 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 5 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 6 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 9 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 10 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 11 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |
| 12 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |