Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 4 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 5 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 6 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 7 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 8 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
| 9 | I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder . |
| 10 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
| 11 | And then , suddenly , I had to see him as a MAN — my husband ! |
| 12 | Then I had to take him to a big detached house divided into flats . |
| 13 | ‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’ |
| 14 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |
| 15 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 16 | But of course I had to remove him from the field . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did . |
| 19 | But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops . |
| 20 | Five or ten minutes by there , and getting introduced to all the old colliers that were in the same manhole , that we called it : I started down then to follow my father ; and I had to follow him like a little dog , all the way . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I felt I ought to have gone in earlier ; that now I had put him in a huff . |
| 23 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 24 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 25 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 26 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 27 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 30 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |