Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 2 | I had to explain him a bit first , because from meeting me you would n't necessarily be able to tell what my best friend was like , and Oliver can get up people 's nostrils . |
| 3 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 4 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 5 | I wish I had landed him a facer ! ’ |
| 6 | There was a silence , as if I had asked him a very profound question . |
| 7 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 8 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 9 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 10 | I had met him every day of my life in England : punching my ticket on a ‘ bus , cutting my hair , selling me an evening newspaper or looking after the engine of my aeroplane . |
| 11 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 12 | I had to ask him the way to the police station . |
| 13 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 14 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 15 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 16 | I had to tell him the news myself |
| 17 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 18 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 19 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 20 | Someone had sent him a jacket almost exactly like the ones the famous bomber pilots all wore during the war . |
| 21 | Hugo Brassard looked as if someone had given him a present . |
| 22 | I 'll never forget the expression on his face , it was like someone had shown him a ghost . |
| 23 | If someone had told him a nuclear bomb was targeted on County Limerick , he 'd he delighted that his heating bills would be reduced . |
| 24 | He said someone had brought him a chair and he had begun to come round and had felt fine . |
| 25 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 26 | He had always been a very religious man , which had helped him a lot in the Corporation . |
| 27 | Gabriel had collected Steve from school and brought him home , where she had cooked him a meal . |
| 28 | She thought she had given him a very tricky word , one that he would n't yet have learned , and she was peeved that he had succeeded . |
| 29 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 30 | She had given him no answer but had stared at him and he had come back quickly , saying , ‘ That was a daft thing to say ; you always manage . ’ |