Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] 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 | I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 9 | He gasped as though someone had stabbed him through the heart . |
| 10 | And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had a manual of casual jobs — things like grape-picking , which had got him through the summer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD . |
| 20 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 23 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 26 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
| 27 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 28 | She had asked him about the planet . |
| 29 | He would look up from his newspaper after supper to find her eyes fixed on him , in a way which brought back to him the passion with which she had kissed him upon the moor . |
| 30 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |