Example sentences of "had [verb] him [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But they had all laughed and Meg , for the missing loaf , had punished him the usual way , locked-up thirsty in the room .
2 Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect .
3 When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run .
4 ‘ Are you out of your … ? his father stopped and looked in a startled manner at his mother , who had given him a sharp dig , then began to cough .
5 Likewise Jacob , his father , had given him a long robe with sleeves , for he ‘ loved Joseph more than any other of his children ’ ( Gen. 37:3 ) .
6 By September the Franco courts had given him a twenty-year prison sentence .
7 Her rifle butt had given him a nasty knock , but there would be no lasting damage .
8 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
9 These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class .
10 His father had given him a plentiful supply of money and there was considerable justification for the war .
11 Leith was about to state , quite forcefully , that she was there to work , not to flirt with every male who chanced his arm , when suddenly she realised that if he knew she had worked for Vasey 's for only a short while then there was a fair chance either someone from Personnel , or Mr Catham , had given him a brief run-down on each employee before he met them .
12 What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident .
13 The Street Duties sergeant at the police station had given him a hard time .
14 He disputed that Royan was at risk : he had given him the correct treatment and calm reassurance — which was the essence of his treatment .
15 Paris had given him the intellectual edge and the authority to do this .
16 She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater .
17 He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint .
18 His ship had been in Japan just after the surrender and he had enjoyed a couple of visits to the bath houses in Yokohama A part of the treatment there had included an exhilarating massage carried out by a young girl who , by standing on his inert naked body , and by using her body weight as a substitute for arm muscle , had given him an unforgettable massage with her bare feet .
19 Emilia , her sister , had given him an illustrated copy of The Wind in the Willows .
20 Werner jerked his hand away as though the keyboard had given him an electric shock .
21 He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue .
22 To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world .
23 In addition , Seb 's fight with Boz had made him a temporary focus for their anger .
24 William Quekett was living in fashionable Well Close Square in the 1840s — a few doors away from John Frederick Hasted , Benjamin Titford 's cousin — but his real work lay in the poor courts and alleyways of the parish at large , where his dedication and Christian charity had made him a legendary figure .
25 His pre-Civil War sympathies for the national-syndicalist JONS and his membership of Falange from 1936 onwards had made him a natural choice for the post of ambassador to Vichy .
26 On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister .
27 His solitary life had made him an accurate observer of wild creatures , and to him humans were but other creatures , rare , but the most dangerous and observable of all .
28 His first plan was to have the film , provisionally entitled Who Killed Bambi ? directed by Russ Meyer , a corpulent , moustachioed American whose films featuring pendulous-breasted women had made him an improbable recipient of cult acclaim .
29 The farmer , himself a member of the planning committee , had recently removed his stockman from the cottage had built him a modern bungalow on the farm , an arrangement now recognised as less altruistic than it might appear .
30 Lorton had lent him a black Balaclava helmet which covered all of his head except the eyes and the bridge of the nose ; feeling like a trainee terrorist , he pulled it on ; he was grateful for its warmth .
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