Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nellie had put him to bed thinking it was a cold , then hearing of the scarlet fever in Newry through Tommy Drennan , she sent for Dr Nolan at once . |
| 2 | Tammuz Malamute abused the body Ewan had bequeathed him for years , telling himself he 'd buried the past , until the day he woke up and a voice inside reminded him that Ari Famber was fourteen years old . |
| 3 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 4 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 5 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |
| 6 | When the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East went on television that night to clean up the mess that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had put him into again , he did not look pleased about it . |
| 7 | His killer , a 16-year-old hired assassin who was wounded and captured , later claimed that a stranger had provided him with a submachine gun and directed him to kill the UP leader . |
| 8 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 9 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 10 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 11 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 12 | An ambulance had rushed him to hospital , but attempts to save him had failed . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's in here ? ’ said Lee , opening the door of the room that Mrs Wright had taken him into , to see the birds ' eggs . |
| 14 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 15 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |
| 16 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or perhaps it was like one of those big animals Grimma had showed him in a book once . |
| 19 | It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured . |
| 20 | He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket . |
| 21 | Cadfael had kept him with him of design , when Hugh departed to report to Abbot Radulfus what had been found and what had been done . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 24 | One sentry almost drowned on his feet , for the wind had pinned him against a rock , and he could not free himself or even turn his face into shelter , while it dashed into his mouth and nostrils unceasing volleys of rain so heavy that he could not get his breath ; and if two of his companions who had their backs turned upon the blast had not been cast against him , and so afforded his face shelter enough to breathe , he must have died spread-eagled there . |
| 25 | Possibly Richard had summoned him to Saintes to do homage and Vulgrin had refused , not willing to accept the losses recently inflicted upon his family . |
| 26 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 27 | More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory . |
| 28 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 29 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |
| 30 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |