Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 11 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 14 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
| 15 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 16 | She had asked him about the planet . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 19 | She had met him in the street . |
| 20 | She had met him in the Coupole the night before when she was sitting with her friends from the atelier , and he 'd known one of them and come over . |
| 21 | She greeted him with pleasure , for she had liked him from the start . |
| 22 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 23 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 24 | She had sent him on the way to solving the mystery of her husband 's murder . |
| 25 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 26 | ‘ One must n't take too much of a good thing , for money is easily spent ’ , said one of Beatrice Potter 's hosts , putting the cigarette she had offered him on the mantelpiece after one or two puffs , for the next night . |
| 27 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 28 | His cheerful rubicund face was graver than usual , and when she had ushered him into the dining-room he began without preliminary : |
| 29 | Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman . |
| 30 | Yes , he was every bit as good looking as she had thought he was when she had glimpsed him from the catwalk . |