Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect .
2 Paris had given him the intellectual edge and the authority to do this .
3 Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ?
4 They had once shared an apartment in Beirut , and when Hamadan later moved to Poland to run the Jafaars ' heroin export business to the Eastern bloc through their offices in Warsaw , Younis had paid him an extended visit there .
5 To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world .
6 In addition , Seb 's fight with Boz had made him a temporary focus for their anger .
7 He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with .
8 But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination .
9 What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all .
10 He grinned ; at least Myeloski had sent him a beautiful woman and not a dog .
11 Lorton had lent him a black Balaclava helmet which covered all of his head except the eyes and the bridge of the nose ; feeling like a trainee terrorist , he pulled it on ; he was grateful for its warmth .
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