Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 2 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 3 | At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever . |
| 4 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 5 | They were n't told FIMBRA had kicked him out in 1988 and so they are n't entitled to compensation . |
| 6 | NoS had mucked him about for more than a year . |
| 7 | They had hosed him down after that , then poured urine over him . |
| 8 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 9 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 10 | Men had beaten him up on several occasions , for no apparent reason . |
| 11 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 12 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 13 | He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body … |