Example sentences of "him because [pers pn] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I contacted him because he had been a friend of the novelist and playwright , Patrick Hamilton , about whom I am writing a book . |
| 2 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 3 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 4 | I FEEL sorry for him because he 's been through so much — hammered in every way . |
| 5 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 6 | But I was braced to cope with him because I had been ambitious for Jean-Claude , vauntingly so . |
| 7 | She wished she could say she knew she was being difficult and edgy , taking it out on him because she 'd been denied another child . |