Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 3 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 4 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 6 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 7 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 8 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
| 9 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 10 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 11 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 12 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 13 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 14 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 15 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 16 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 17 | I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder . |
| 18 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
| 19 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |
| 20 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 21 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 22 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 23 | I felt I ought to have gone in earlier ; that now I had put him in a huff . |
| 24 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 25 | Erm , no yo I 've , er I 've asked him at the parents ' evening what he expected us to do for economics , right ? |
| 26 | However , ever since an incident with a chicken which resulted in a bald-arsed chicken and a dog with a mouthful of feathers , I 've kept him on a lead whenever I 've been near a farmyard . |
| 27 | Donald and Piers ( because I 've lameducked him in a sense , too ) but they 're both attractive young men . |
| 28 | Anyway , it 's very , very good news , he 's turned the corner I 've hit him over the head with the newspaper ! |
| 29 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 30 | I 've seen him at the club many times . |