Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
2 | 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 |
3 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
4 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
5 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
6 | I thought I 'd seen him before somewhere . |
7 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
8 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
9 | I 'd met him in Nigeria . |
10 | I told Caroline I 'd met him by chance . |
11 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
12 | ‘ I wish I 'd told him to , to … ’ |
13 | I 'd told him in his office it would do no good , but he insisted . |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
16 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
17 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
18 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
19 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
23 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
24 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
25 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
26 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | She had been as insignificant in appearance as all the other girls I had seen him with : as insignificant as I was myself . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |