Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 3 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 4 | Unaware that she had called him by name for the first time , she halted , still some feet away , gazing at him uncertainly . |
| 5 | She wished suddenly that she had met him under different circumstances : not as Jenny 's boy friend ; not as her fellow beneficiary in Aunt Alicia 's will . |
| 6 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 7 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 8 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 9 | Feeling a need suddenly for warmth and companionship , she turned , meaning to retrace her steps to where Fen sat , apparently engrossed now that she had left him in peace . |
| 10 | He pushed through the swing doors and was gone , leaving her close to tears and frantically worried that she had upset him for ever . |
| 11 | It was fortunate indeed that we had put him in a cell with another person . |
| 12 | Why should he feel that they had bred him to disappointment ? |
| 13 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 14 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 15 | Minton explained that he had recognised him from a self-portrait that had been exhibited at the AIA Gallery in London . |
| 16 | It seemed improper somehow that someone like Tulagai , his motives suspect , should mock Siban , who had served the Khanate so well , and Alexei thought that he was sorry that he had goaded him into leaving . |
| 17 | Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it . |
| 18 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |