Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 2 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 3 | He had seen him in the city . |
| 4 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 5 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 6 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
| 7 | As the York writer noted , the king did not love Anselm after he had thwarted him in the matter of investitures . |
| 8 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 9 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 10 | He had put him in the Cabinet because , with Bonar Law gone , he needed a man from the Law stable to preserve the balance . |
| 11 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |