Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been talking to him , have n't you ? |
| 2 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 3 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 4 | First , where an application for an injunction is made ex parte and the defendant claims , or in the opinion of the court would be likely to claim , that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall not grant the injunction unless satisfied that all steps which in the circumstances were reasonable have been taken with a view to securing that notice of the application and an opportunity of being heard with respect to the application have been given to him . |
| 5 | Full instructions and documentation have been given to him . |
| 6 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 7 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 8 | Is he a deity bearing off animals that have been sacrificed to him ? |
| 9 | More than seventy years after his death and after all the books and shows which have been dedicated to him , one might expect that nothing of any importance would appear now to improve the idea we have of his life and his work . |
| 10 | People have been talking to him about sickness and that if an office has erm people that are off sick a lot more than another office they 're at a disadvantage . |
| 11 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 12 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 13 | If a Conservative MP X or Y , who has not been known to take ideological stands , approaches a minister or a whip and expresses grave doubts , this is viewed with considerable worry and it is assumed that these objections have been put forward by the MP only after the points have been put to him with equal or greater force in his constituency . |
| 14 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |