Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 2 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 3 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 4 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 5 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 6 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 7 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 8 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 9 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 10 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 11 | And now I 've lost him a second time , and this time for ever ! |
| 12 | Bless you , now you see , now straight away I 've asked him a simple question , he 's given me a simple , straightforward answer |
| 13 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 15 | I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've known him a long time , ’ Maggie said desperately , knowing quite well that she was being taunted and feeling just a little defenceless . |
| 17 | I 've told him no more sex till he gets back into shape . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Because Father is a tired old man I have spared him a hundred times , and tolerated things which are little short of intolerable . |
| 19 | Though I wish you 'd given him a different name . |
| 20 | Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her . |
| 21 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 22 | No , she 'd left him a reassuring note . |
| 23 | I said , " You 've given him a bloody licence to do it . " |
| 24 | You 've given him an adverse marking . |
| 25 | You 've known him a long time ? ’ |
| 26 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 27 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 28 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
| 29 | But he had not even asked — she had found him a little unnerving . |
| 30 | But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell . |