Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
2 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
3 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |
6 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
7 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
8 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
9 | 780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
10 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
11 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
12 | He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground . |
13 | It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat . |
14 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
15 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
16 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
17 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
18 | At the very end of his lite , writing again of the importance of how his experience as a homosexual had pushed him along the path of revolt , and recalling joyfully one of his lovers , Mala , Gide adds : |
19 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
20 | Ashi had met him during the height of the oil boom , when the late Shah was pouring the country 's new-found wealth into creating an entire new infrastructure for a land that had hardly changed since biblical times . |
21 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
22 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | She had met him in the street . |
25 | Nina had stabbed him with the syringe . |
26 | He gasped as though someone had stabbed him through the heart . |
27 | Gordon Jackson , QC , defending , said that the accused had not plunged the knife directly into Mr Kerr nine times , but had stabbed him in the course of the struggle . |
28 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
29 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
30 | I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder . |