Example sentences of "had [verb] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 2 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 3 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 4 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 5 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 6 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 7 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
| 8 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 9 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 10 | He seemed a genial and indestructible landmark in the history of American music , in spite of defective hearing which had bothered him since the late Seventies . |
| 11 | On either side of the central aisle , heads nodded at the buildings and streets around them as a now livelier Ashenden continued , himself ( like the site , it appeared ) splendidly restored from whatever malaise had affected him over the previous two days , a malaise which had been noted and commented upon by several others of the group besides Mrs Shirley Brown — the latter sitting comfortably now in her usual seat , the effects of the sting having cleared up fairly quickly under the twin application of Mrs Roscoe 's unguents . |
| 12 | It was not until the oriental had addressed the armed newcomer with the blackened face , that the two youngsters had recognised him as the private detective Brett Grant . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 15 | Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others . |
| 16 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Leese claimed that his ‘ martyrdom ’ had been achieved against the wishes of the Jury who had acquitted him on the serious charge . |
| 19 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 20 | Since Stephen had appointed him to the permanent position of maintenance manager , he was often out on the property . |
| 21 | I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did . |
| 22 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 23 | When Ricky began taking Jenny out she was surprised to learn that Minton paid him money and had taken him to the Caribbean . |
| 24 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 25 | On Aug. 11 the Supreme Soviet in emergency session had deprived him of the additional powers granted on April 30 [ see p. 38916 ] , and , in a resolution passed on Aug. 14 on extricating the country from crisis , censured him for " indecisive and at times incompetent policy " and demanded that he and the government take all measures to implement the July peace agreement [ for which see p. 39010 ] . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 28 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 29 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |