Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life . |
| 2 | Kelly had expected that Jack Butler would live up to the image she had painted of him in her mind . |
| 3 | She had explained to him about her mother ; he had met her mother ; he had seemed to size up the problem , had said the right things in his oblique way . |
| 4 | She had heard of him from his grandfather . |
| 5 | He had condemned her and the warmth she had sensed in him from their first meeting had all gone . |
| 6 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 7 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 8 | Land he gave to St Augustine 's , Canterbury , in 689 , which had come to him from his parents , had been confirmed in his possession by King Athelred ( CS 73 : S 12 ) . |
| 9 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 10 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 11 | And she had talked to him about me . ’ |
| 12 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 13 | He was concentrating on demolishing the last of the lime and liquorice sweets he had brought with him in his haversack from Partick , and he trod purposefully on the wet red leaves with his hiking-boots as he strode along . |
| 14 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 15 | One officer who had worked with him during his short stay in the force laughingly told colleagues that this ‘ college man ’ definitely had one arrest — because he would willingly recall details of his big moment for anyone who was prepared to listen . |
| 16 | He had liked Susan Moffat who , for two years , had worked for him as his S.O . |
| 17 | He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . |
| 18 | But of course ; Dan Ashton had chased after him with it . |
| 19 | Yet such evidence as there is suggests that his love for his wife had been deepened by the way she had stood by him during his years in prison . |