Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , a former CIA agent had given him a detailed , off-the-record account of the agency 's involvement with arms and narcotics trafficking in the Middle East . |
| 2 | She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater . |
| 3 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 4 | The Street Duties sergeant at the police station had given him a hard time . |
| 5 | Werner jerked his hand away as though the keyboard had given him an electric shock . |
| 6 | William Quekett was living in fashionable Well Close Square in the 1840s — a few doors away from John Frederick Hasted , Benjamin Titford 's cousin — but his real work lay in the poor courts and alleyways of the parish at large , where his dedication and Christian charity had made him a legendary figure . |
| 7 | Paris had given him the intellectual edge and the authority to do this . |
| 8 | His father had given him a plentiful supply of money and there was considerable justification for the war . |
| 9 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
| 10 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 11 | They had once shared an apartment in Beirut , and when Hamadan later moved to Poland to run the Jafaars ' heroin export business to the Eastern bloc through their offices in Warsaw , Younis had paid him an extended visit there . |
| 12 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |
| 13 | His solitary life had made him an accurate observer of wild creatures , and to him humans were but other creatures , rare , but the most dangerous and observable of all . |
| 14 | In addition , Seb 's fight with Boz had made him a temporary focus for their anger . |
| 15 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 16 | By the time he did , her new book was out and her publishers had sent him an advance copy . |
| 17 | She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man . |
| 18 | But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination . |
| 19 | Surprisingly , perhaps , he had only risen to the rank of major but , nevertheless , this status had afforded him a certain standard of living , being waited on by subordinates , an agreeable social life and plenty of opportunity , whenever the fancy took him , of indulging in affairs with the opposite sex . |
| 20 | The farmer , himself a member of the planning committee , had recently removed his stockman from the cottage had built him a modern bungalow on the farm , an arrangement now recognised as less altruistic than it might appear . |
| 21 | By September the Franco courts had given him a twenty-year prison sentence . |
| 22 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 23 | Her rifle butt had given him a nasty knock , but there would be no lasting damage . |
| 24 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |
| 25 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 26 | He grinned ; at least Myeloski had sent him a beautiful woman and not a dog . |
| 27 | His first plan was to have the film , provisionally entitled Who Killed Bambi ? directed by Russ Meyer , a corpulent , moustachioed American whose films featuring pendulous-breasted women had made him an improbable recipient of cult acclaim . |
| 28 | Lorton had lent him a black Balaclava helmet which covered all of his head except the eyes and the bridge of the nose ; feeling like a trainee terrorist , he pulled it on ; he was grateful for its warmth . |