Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] had [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society and its rules had trapped him in a corner . |
| 2 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 3 | Once again the solicitor representing them said that there was not and that his clients had put him in difficulties , as he had only been given instructions a week before . |
| 4 | His parents had sent him to Oslo immediately after Hitler 's annexation of Austria , when he was only nine . |
| 5 | His parents had named him after Franklin D. Roosevelt and he had carefully built up a similar outwardly benevolent image . |
| 6 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 7 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 8 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 9 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 10 | His actions had caused him to be one of the most reviled prisoners among the white community , and the government had hitherto refused to recognize him as a political prisoner . |
| 11 | Mr Turner , of South Humberside , said : ‘ I was so pleased when he called all his neighbours had told him about it . |
| 12 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 13 | Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system . |
| 14 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 15 | His struggles had brought him to within reach of Chalon 's powerful hindquarters , and Isabel did n't hesitate . |
| 16 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |