Example sentences of "be [verb] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been to see his girlfriend in Southampton and was on his way to see his parents in Sheffield . |
| 2 | Filmer , I was interested to see , had been to see his horse before departure . |
| 3 | Graham Hunsley , defending , said he was now off hard drugs , had been to see his doctor about the problem and was hoping to undergo treatment at an addiction centre . |
| 4 | Cronenberg 's way of filming the unfilmable has been to arrange his material in a pulp noir format , laced with hallucinations , corrupt characters , and local colour ( local being studio-recreated Tangier ) . |
| 5 | Fribble , who had been eating his supper with industrious pleasure , said , ‘ I never heard that story until lately , you know . |
| 6 | To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company . |
| 7 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 8 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
| 9 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 10 | He has been grooming his son Kim Jong-il for the succession , but the latter does not enjoy his father 's authority and a power struggle could already be under way . |
| 11 | Similarly , upon receiving a client , immediately introduce yourself by name , and preferably also by card , so that in two minutes the client is calling you by your own name and feels you have been handling his business all his life . |
| 12 | I had been given his address by friends in Britain and now took a taxi to his flat , a couple of miles from the hotel but still in the older part of the city of Buda . |
| 13 | As he fielded questions at a press conference in his Yeovil constituency about his terms for a coalition in the event of a hung Parliament or whether Downing Street had been given his telephone number , the instrument that could receive the crucial call was being hunted down by aides . |
| 14 | He identified his electricity bill and the telephone bill ( he hoped his colleagues had not been using his phone too much ) and a typewritten envelope which he took to be an advertisement . |
| 15 | cos he 's been devoting his life to his wife more |
| 16 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Wright has been transforming his management team , which has recently been completed with the additions of Reg Broughton from ICL , functioning as vice president of OEM sales and marketing and Carl Baldini , a founder of server start-up Enterprise Technology , as vice president of engineering . |
| 18 | CHRIS EUBANK has been wasting his money consulting a public relations company to improve his image . |
| 19 | I 've heard that my brother has been wasting his magic . |
| 20 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 21 | Jane Davis , prosecuting , had earlier told the court that Orchard , of Farringdon , London , had been walking his dog when he saw the girl in a playground in the King 's Cross area one evening last July . |
| 22 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 23 | Maybe he 's a little bit worried that we are challenging his supremacy . |
| 24 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 25 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 26 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 27 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 28 | Will he accept its deep gratitude for the way in which his officials are explaining his Department 's needs so as to ensure that the right commercial decisions are made about the markets to go for in future ? |
| 29 | I am not proposing him for Moderator , but I am pressing his case . |
| 30 | But Robbie Supple had been keeping his powder dry on Very Very Ordinary and there was nothing in the least ‘ ordinary ’ about the long , relentless charge with which they mowed down the leading pair between the last two fences . |