Example sentences of "had [verb] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 2 | He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club . |
| 3 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 4 | It was as if she had shot him with a tranquillising dart . |
| 5 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 6 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 7 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 8 | Her existence , he now realised , had implications far beyond her abrasive and insistent presence : it had tethered him to a distant shore . |
| 9 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 10 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 11 | During his first week , Mrs Jordan had visited him with a homemade fruitcake . |
| 12 | The Minister of War probably had the most influential voice , for one of his officials , Dmitrii Miliutin — older brother of Nikolai , the " enlightened bureaucrat " who had redesigned St Petersburg 's municipal administration in 1846 — had armed him with a wide-ranging and incisive brief entitled " On the danger of continuing military action in 1856 " . |
| 13 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 14 | There were the two gold and jewelled boxes Müller had sold him at a staggering profit , considering he had bought them from someone facing criminal charges , and desperate for cash . |
| 15 | Herluin had opened his mouth and drawn breath to ride over his presumptuous novice with a torrent of indignant words , but then held his breath even before the abbot had cautioned him with a peremptory hand . |
| 16 | The first tug had awoken him from a complacent slumber , the second had brought him to his feet . |
| 17 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 18 | The desire to capture had driven him like a wild man through the school yard , up the sidewalk , everywhere . |
| 19 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 20 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 21 | He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required . |
| 22 | Town rallied and had a good effort from Kenny Campbell , well saved by keeper , Andy Hopping , after Roger Charles had found him with a great cross , but Harefield went in at half time with a deserved one nil lead . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It had touched him on a raw spot . |
| 25 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The water was rising all the time , and we had to seal him inside a waterproof bag and drag him through the sump . ’ |
| 28 | His feelings were cleansed of the poisons of revenge , contempt , self-hatred , envy and avarice which had worked him into a hellish turbulence of vicious thoughts . |
| 29 | Like Paul , he had trained for the law in youth , and it had left him with a certain accuracy . |
| 30 | It had left him with a pronounced limp in his left leg . |