Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 2 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Anthony would probably move on sooner or later ; his bosses , two Anglo-Italian academics , had already warned him about the carelessness of his work . |
| 5 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 6 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 7 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 8 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 9 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 10 | By leaving Brentwoods earlier than anticipated , she had not seen him through the publication of his novel . |
| 11 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 12 | He was neither pallid nor flabby , prison had not marked him in the ways she expected . |
| 13 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 14 | There was a tinge of envy in his tone , for his humdrum childhood home in Croydon had not provided him with the kind of ‘ things ’ his taste now craved . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Scarlet had understood that she was meant to understand that Brian was a hopeless father and a worthless human being , and she had not told him of the call . |
| 17 | He had once fought for the French , but they had not promoted him beyond the rank of colonel , she had deserted to the British who had rewarded his defection with a knighthood and a generalship , but even so , he still felt slighted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 20 | His chest hurt and he felt sick , as if someone had just kicked him in the gut . |
| 21 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 22 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
| 23 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 24 | With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable young lady at the desk at the head of the room : she had always struck him as the sort of librarian who would prefer to see all the desks in her domain empty and all the books permanently under lock and key . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Rauti replaced the much younger Gianfranco Fini who had narrowly defeated him for the post in December 1987 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 27 | She had n't recognised him from the back , and now she stared at him in surprise . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |