Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place .
2 I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day .
3 This was the first time I had seen him since the landings .
4 There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before .
5 He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know .
6 I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder .
7 ‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’
8 But of course I had to remove him from the field . ’
9 No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me .
10 I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did .
11 But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops .
12 Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross .
13 For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own .
14 He gasped as though someone had stabbed him through the heart .
15 And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder .
16 He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station .
17 Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever .
18 As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket .
19 He seemed a genial and indestructible landmark in the history of American music , in spite of defective hearing which had bothered him since the late Seventies .
20 Many heiresses could give him dollars , few could offer him the appearance and manner of a lady — it was that which had attracted him after the cruder charms of such as Maybelle Foy .
21 Secondly , Sir Angus was barely a year out of the Civil Service after a career which had taken him to the chairmanship of the Customs and Excise .
22 He had a manual of casual jobs — things like grape-picking , which had got him through the summer .
23 Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours .
24 For that evening , as work finished , the Zoo Curator himself had summoned him to the building near the Cages where they did a lot of the scientific and veterinary work on the birds .
25 Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD .
26 Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence .
27 She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time .
28 She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet .
29 She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost .
30 Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated .
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