Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] him [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual sedition charge , however , reportedly arose from an article on tribalism , in which Imanyara wrote that some readers had contacted him to allege that undue favouritism was being shown in official quarters towards particular groups . |
| 2 | Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership . |
| 3 | The Duke of Newcastle , an amiable obliging man whose sense of duty and failure to perceive his own inadequacies had led him to become Prime Minister in the last months of peace and to preside over the move to war , was now very well aware that things were falling apart . |
| 4 | Rough told how his wife Michelle had taught him to keep fresh food away from detergents . |
| 5 | Although Donleavy had told him to stay clear of American officials overseas in case they were under surveillance by foreign intelligence agencies , Coleman assumed that Sasser had cleared the meeting with Control and drove up from Larnaca to keep the appointment , expecting to be briefed on some unexpected emergency . |
| 6 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 7 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 8 | He was n't sure what impulse had made him go first to Harry Mack 's body . |
| 9 | The thought had kept him going all day . |
| 10 | Mr Roh 's advisers had urged him to delay any cabinet reshuffle to avoid the impression that he was simply responding to the students ' demands . |
| 11 | Bet bloody Matt 's been getting at him probably knew the camera had caught him looking shit-scared . |
| 12 | The suggestion had made him go silent . |
| 13 | Ronald Whyte , chief executive of Aberdeen cooperage machinery manufacturer , Schoolhill Engineering , spoke for most of the mission members when he said that the recession and the exchange rate advantage had encouraged him to seek new markets in France . |
| 14 | Now he acknowledged to himself that his admiration for Sarah had caused him to overlook young Martha 's attractions . |
| 15 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 16 | None of the women he had met in Mandru 's house had made him feel ugly . |
| 17 | and his time on Earth had taught him to feel cold as an intellectual concept , if not a physical one , and he might have wished to take shelter . |
| 18 | What on earth had made him say that ? |