Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her existence , he now realised , had implications far beyond her abrasive and insistent presence : it had tethered him to a distant shore .
2 A new manager and a new accountant had alerted him to the alarming fact that , notwithstanding his private plane , home recording studio and sports cars , he was short of money .
3 He remembered the day in Paris , all those years ago , when his uncle had introduced him to the tall , quiet man to whom his life would be dedicated .
4 Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system .
5 In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry .
6 Since Stephen had appointed him to the permanent position of maintenance manager , he was often out on the property .
7 When Ricky began taking Jenny out she was surprised to learn that Minton paid him money and had taken him to the Caribbean .
8 Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle .
9 Therefore Sharpe must die , and if he was not to be killed in a duel , then he must be taken care of in another way and , in the darkness as Lord John had said his farewells , Jane had urged him to the other way .
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