Example sentences of "him [pers pn] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 2 | I gave him the booklet and I told him I 'd been doing it … oh , yes , and he 'd put it in as one of his objectives for this year . |
| 3 | ‘ But he seemed genuinely interested , particularly when I told him I 'd been round one of the stations on a Come & See tour . |
| 4 | Sergeant Flavell sounds a little odd when I talk to him and tell him I 've been to Jersey for the day but I 'm on my way back to Edinburgh . |
| 5 | ‘ If you see my father , ’ he said , hesitating , ‘ could you tell him I 've been cheerful ? |
| 6 | that we have n't ever seen cos he looks stuck in Hungary , she said and I 'll never forget she said we put a name tag on him I 've been to Hungary . |
| 7 | ‘ And if you do n't get out of here I 'll tell him you 've been up in the woods with a dog . |
| 8 | Suppose she came back now and told him she 'd been somewhere else ? |
| 9 | Flustered by his presence , thrown off balance by the feel of his hard body against her own , she suddenly clamped her mouth shut , horrified to realise she 'd almost told him she 'd been rushing to get to him . |
| 10 | His humour was sometimes expressed in schoolboyish practical jokes , but he possessed also a quicksilver wit , as illustrated by his remark to Lady ( Margaret ) Keynes ( née Darwin ) , who told him she had been bitten by an ape at Gibraltar : ‘ He was having revenge on the Darwins . ’ |
| 11 | Every instinct in her told her not to care , but as she had looked at him she had been all too aware of his lean virility and of her responses to it . |
| 12 | Ever since she had met him she had been on a roller-coaster , going up and down and swerving from one emotional crisis to another . |
| 13 | But , flicking her glance away from him when he caught her looking at him , she formed the view that she must have gone a little light-headed with the guilt of her conscience , because it seemed to her that since knowing him she had been visited by one strange thought or feeling after another . |
| 14 | ‘ You wait till I tell him she 's been spending up West . |
| 15 | I said to him we 've been conned ! |
| 16 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 17 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could name names and that elected members had told him they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |
| 18 | Sylvia was an English rose , and when she 'd seduced him it had been the pinnacle of his life . |
| 19 | Eventually I told him it had been Mazzin , who was duly summoned . |
| 20 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , but I was damned if I was going to tell him it had been OK 'd . |
| 22 | For her , their lovemaking might have been an almost mystical fusing of bodies and identities , yet for him it had been no more than a roll in the hay . |
| 23 | It was a fabled street , but for him it had been forbidden territory . |
| 24 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 25 | The speech sent shock waves through the medical profession , but the Prince had hit a nerve and , for all the criticism that was heaped on his head in the aftermath , the letters from the public told him he had been right . |
| 26 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 27 | When I bought him he had been ridden in an ordinary jointed snaffle , so it seemed sensible to stick to the mouthpiece with which he was familiar . |
| 28 | When Sandison had last seen him he had been a sad figure , a man approaching old age , tired , dishevelled and drunk . |
| 29 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 30 | In the alleyway in which she had found him he had been protected from the evening surge of the wind , but as they began to walk towards the west it seemed to attack him . |