Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had intended to leave them at the station , but the Left Luggage Office , he had just been reminded , closed at 9.30 . |
| 2 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 3 | Cacheris had sought to reassure them over the guarantees of civil liberties governing trials in the USA . |
| 4 | jack Carey , who was an explorer as well as a student of Oriental languages , had promised to take them to the most remote corners of the earth some day , and they had often pictured themselves camping in the silent desert , or following some ancient track to a ruined city which had once been great . |
| 5 | He had offered to take them to the local dressmaker 's to have them seamed in to a more fashionable line , but Gina would n't even let him do that . |
| 6 | He gave Ranulf a brief description of what had happened but his servant , with a keen sense of survival , immediately tried to link events to the men who had attempted to attack them on the road from Leith . |
| 7 | She knows that and the statistics are at least available from the Library but not with the precision that she could have given if she had chosen to give them to the House . |