Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 2 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 6 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His parents had named him after Franklin D. Roosevelt and he had carefully built up a similar outwardly benevolent image . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His parents had sent him to Oslo immediately after Hitler 's annexation of Austria , when he was only nine . |
| 11 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 12 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 13 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 14 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 15 | Perhaps the mad fuckers had hung him in an abattoir . |
| 16 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 17 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 18 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 19 | The torturers had chained him to a wall , applying searing hot pokers to the softest and most tender parts of his body . |
| 20 | He had formulated these principles on several occasions in the past , not least when monks had consulted him about accepting ecclesiastical promotion . |
| 21 | Timex managers had told him of heavy losses in recent years and the possibility of more losses this year . |
| 22 | If Fiver 's horrors had kept him above ground all night in the rain , oblivious of cold and prowling elil , then clearly it was not going to he easy to talk him out of them . |
| 23 | Michael Steen , owner of Wessex Home Care and a Dorset councillor , said more than 20 would-be providers had contacted him about licences . |
| 24 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 25 | His actions had caused him to be one of the most reviled prisoners among the white community , and the government had hitherto refused to recognize him as a political prisoner . |
| 26 | Like many other colonials , the often devastating effects of the climate on local agriculture , and the inordinate expenses of living far from commercial centres had reduced him to impoverishment , but he was also finding little recompense from the government . |
| 27 | Mr Turner , of South Humberside , said : ‘ I was so pleased when he called all his neighbours had told him about it . |
| 28 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 29 | Walesa 's critics had accused him of dangerous populism which threatened political and economic stability . |
| 30 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |