Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] him at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station . |
| 2 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 4 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 5 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 6 | ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him . |
| 7 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 8 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |