Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] him in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 2 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 3 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 4 | He was neither pallid nor flabby , prison had not marked him in the ways she expected . |
| 5 | That old bugger Grunte had not included him in the invitation to dine at some poncy joint called La Noblesse , the smartest part of the Hospitality Inn . |
| 6 | His first-rate performances — in Hotel in New Hampshire , and as a retarded man in Square Dance — were largely unhonoured , and his many other movies were n't hot , Worse , he had to scrabble out from a confusion of drink , drugs and sexual adventure that had finally landed him in the tabloids and the jokebooks . |
| 7 | His chest hurt and he felt sick , as if someone had just kicked him in the gut . |
| 8 | I knew the farmer who was hiding him , Signor Merli , because I had often met him in the bank , and I knew he was a very honest and reliable man who would never betray anybody . |
| 9 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |
| 10 | It was , by now , Saturday , a day on which the registrar 's office was normally closed , so special arrangements had to be made and the registrar had to open up just for me , which , I imagine , had n't put him in the best of moods , which manifested itself when I could n't remember the date on which Nigel and I were married . |
| 11 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 12 | Mr Mandela , for his part , according to Mr Ramaphosa , had ‘ a unique greatness ’ , a magnetism which he felt in his presence on Tuesday before he had even looked him in the eye . |