Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
| 2 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 3 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 4 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 5 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 6 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 7 | He fought against the sensation that Molland had strapped him on a sort of conveyor belt in a factory that processed death . |
| 8 | ‘ One must n't take too much of a good thing , for money is easily spent ’ , said one of Beatrice Potter 's hosts , putting the cigarette she had offered him on the mantelpiece after one or two puffs , for the next night . |
| 9 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 10 | And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 11 | And then he knew what it was that had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 12 | Buckmaster had hired him on the spot . |
| 13 | Sorge had asked him on the way out of Washington . |
| 14 | ‘ How the hell did they get to England ? ’ the Exec Director had asked him on the phone . |
| 15 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 16 | Lyall , who like the 42-year-old McGiven had his career cut short by injury at West Ham , groomed McGiven in the way that Ron Greenwood had groomed him on the coaching ladder . |
| 17 | In addition , the Kee affair had put him on a collision course with his parents . |
| 18 | The nightmare thing , the thing they had said was her brother ( but she knew that this was impossible ) had killed him on the staircase . |
| 19 | She had sent him on the way to solving the mystery of her husband 's murder . |
| 20 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |