Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual sedition charge , however , reportedly arose from an article on tribalism , in which Imanyara wrote that some readers had contacted him to allege that undue favouritism was being shown in official quarters towards particular groups . |
| 2 | The thing which kept him in such a feverish state was the unmistakable message her brown eyes had sent him as they stood so close together outside her door . |
| 3 | His visit ended in controversy when a group of senior Palestinians cancelled a meeting with Hurd on Oct. 17 , after Israeli journalists had reported him as giving private assurances to Israeli politicians that he did not favour the creation of a Palestinian state . |
| 4 | On the last morning of his captivity , on 27 November , his guards had shown him a newspaper and in particular a photograph on one of the pages . |
| 5 | Long acquaintance with the clergy had convinced him that priests could not tell one layman from the next if they happened to be on their own administrative staff . |
| 6 | That was an unwise decision ; for already the leaders of the Opposition parties had told him that the Cabinet 's latest financial proposals were ‘ wholly unsatisfactory ’ , and had suggested that he should consult the King . |
| 7 | Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade . |
| 8 | Clearly those calves had drained him and I knew how he felt . |
| 9 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 10 | A long time ago , Zacco had sent this man , lord of his Mamelukes , to fetch Nicholas from the monastery to which the Venetians had brought him . |
| 11 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |
| 12 | He told them how Howard 's words had shaken him , and said , ‘ There were things we did with the Security Forces in the forests of which I am not at all proud . |
| 13 | Even so , it was plain from the mixture of resentment and hostility on his face that her words had wounded him . |
| 14 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 15 | The last few months had taught him quite clearly that a good knowledge of writing , reading and arithmetic was no longer enough . |
| 16 | He could have sworn , though it sounded silly , that Tace 's eyes with their hooded , ironical gaze , had compelled him to approach , and Tace 's mobile lips had adjured him , " Buy me ! " |
| 17 | Once again the solicitor representing them said that there was not and that his clients had put him in difficulties , as he had only been given instructions a week before . |
| 18 | Protocol and politeness had taken him out to the airport to meet the Temporary Duty men off the flight . |
| 19 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 20 | The inspector found lower ability classes were two years ahead of similar groups in other schools and observed teachers achieving what other schools had told him was impossible . |
| 21 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |
| 22 | During his years at Oxford , he had spent part of his vacations in France , but those relatively short periods had given him no idea of the chaos that had prevailed since his father 's death . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rachel had n't taken a lot of notice of the young SHO — she had been more interested in her own circle of friends at the time — but he had been a frequent visitor at the Stevenses ' home and she knew her parents had liked him and had been pleased at the prospect of him becoming their son-in-law . |
| 25 | His parents had named him after Franklin D. Roosevelt and he had carefully built up a similar outwardly benevolent image . |
| 26 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 29 | Though he spoke in Russian , the language that his parents had given him , he was from without the walls that bounded their experience . |
| 30 | The magistrates chairman told foster parents had given him a chance — it was now up to him to take it . |