Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] with him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 2 | And after last night 's performance of Hamlet , some of his friends from the theatre had come back with him for an informal reading of their next play . |
| 3 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 4 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 5 | Now he was back in his hovel and naked , lying next to a girl who was having a baby and had moved in with him on that account . |
| 6 | In it were copies of the records Karr had brought back with him from Mars : Berdichev 's personal files , taken from the corpse of his private secretary three days before Karr had caught up with Berdichev himself . |
| 7 | He had seen the original in Berdichev 's papers more than a year ago , amongst the material Karr had brought back with him from Mars , but had never thought to see another . |
| 8 | But he had brought back with him from the pilgrimage no feeling of achievement or merit , only a sense of failure with which he was already too familiar . |
| 9 | Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off . |