Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have dedicated him to the blessed St John the Baptist and had him circumcised . ’ |
| 32 | I have put him into the London to act as lieutenant , ’ the admiral reported . |
| 33 | I have seized him by the hair of his head And shoved it into a bucket of water And I screwed his pistols up his arse A dam sight harder than I screwed his daughter ( Rum ti-iddle-ey etc ) . |
| 34 | I have initiated him into the ‘ Secret Doctrine ’ , opened his centres of vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers . |
| 35 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 36 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 37 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 38 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 39 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 40 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 41 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 42 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 43 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 44 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 45 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 46 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 47 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 48 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 49 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 52 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 55 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
| 56 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 57 | She had asked him about the planet . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 60 | She had met him in the street . |