Example sentences of "[vb past] got him " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hoped they 'd got him detoxed . |
| 2 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 3 | Half-an-hour and half-a-pound of best Irish butter later , I had not only not succeeded , but somehow I 'd got him further through . |
| 4 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 5 | I invented him , Buffy , and when I 'd got him , the book started working . |
| 6 | I 'd got him to play , see ? |
| 7 | She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’ |
| 8 | If they 'd got him badly wounded , they 'd have taken him away , would n't they ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll look after him for me , wo n't you ? ’ she 'd said to me after we 'd got him unpacked and she could n't think of anything else which might prevent her from leaving . |
| 10 | I 'd got him , you know ? |
| 11 | But erm Morrisons on Monday er Bill , he 'd er cooked fish , er er there was some frozen fish what I 'd got him like . |
| 12 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 13 | He come to call for Stephen this morning so I collared him while I 'd got him . |
| 14 | Doctor Staples had got him a place in the county home . |
| 15 | Fate had got him as far as a leading Sheffield estate agents , Blundells . |
| 16 | He had a manual of casual jobs — things like grape-picking , which had got him through the summer . |
| 17 | She had got him on Mr Skinner , though . |
| 18 | Acting as his agent , she had got him a commission to score a 15-minute TV documentary about autumn leaves . |
| 19 | Graham had got him into this . |
| 20 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 21 | But a few weeks earlier he had tentatively approached his departmental head to point out that the qualification which had got him his original interview was a first-class degree in French and Spanish , and that perhaps these abilities might be harnessed to the service of the business . |
| 22 | You 'd wonder nothing had got him by now . |
| 23 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 24 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 25 | He reminded her that it was kindness , as she well knew , that had got him into his present pickle . |
| 26 | The Punishment Squad had got him , and there could be no escape . |
| 27 | This day , Merry — my father-in-law — had got him out ; and the bull was not keen on going to drink . |
| 28 | Richard rather liked Willis 's pictures , and had got him to do a pen and wash drawing of Lord Jim . |
| 29 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 30 | ‘ Charles ’ had been friendly ever since Hazards Ltd had got him out of a jam in the D Saceur affair . |