Example sentences of "him [pron] [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 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 8 | THE COMMITMENTS is Alan Parker 's new film and represents a change of direction for him which has been phenomenally successful . |
| 9 | ‘ And if you do n't get out of here I 'll tell him you 've been up in the woods with a dog . |
| 10 | Suppose she came back now and told him she 'd been somewhere else ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You wait till I tell him she 's been spending up West . |
| 17 | It was him who had been doing it . |
| 18 | " To him who has been given much , much will also be required " . " |
| 19 | I said to him we 've been conned ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 22 | I mentioned to Rhodes after the game that the image of him spearing kamikaze-style into the stumps would adorn front pages around the world the following day , but for him there had been no theatrical ambition inherent in his actions , it was sheer practicality . |
| 23 | Before she told him there had been a kind of subdued glory , a triumphant secret warmth had been hers . |
| 24 | He wonders why I 'm not caddying for Arnold Palmer , so I tell him there 's been a mix-up and he takes me on . |
| 25 | Tell him there has been a change of plan , that you can not be with him tonight . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sylvia was an English rose , and when she 'd seduced him it had been the pinnacle of his life . |
| 28 | Eventually I told him it had been Mazzin , who was duly summoned . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , but I was damned if I was going to tell him it had been OK 'd . |