Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , I had to give him news . |
| 2 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 3 | I had bought him loads of toys . |
| 4 | ‘ Just a friend — but I had to make him mine |
| 5 | Dr Neil had been kind and friendly to her when she had served him breakfast . |
| 6 | Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She excused herself hurriedly and left , returning with a great bustle to announce her coming , when she had given him time to compose himself . |
| 9 | If she had given him time he would have been able to show her passion , he knew , but it was hard for him to relax and act confidently after years of being cowed in a stern loveless household . |
| 10 | During the year they had been together , she had seen him time and again in the dark quiet hours when he believed himself to be unobserved . |
| 11 | She had seen him hand a letter to the man with a black beard . |
| 12 | Watching Ryan 's face , she had to give him points for courage . |
| 13 | He looked as if he was going to protest , but his eyes caught her face , and for the first time since she had known him Nelson was one hundred per cent a grown-up . |
| 14 | She had promised him obedience . |
| 15 | Maybe he and Carrie had discussed her marriage and she had told him things , secret things that were intimate to the marriage bed . |
| 16 | Just her luck ; he would have believed Myra if she had told him Claudia had a twin . |
| 17 | You had to give him freedom . |
| 18 | On top of all that Copper has always had a dust allergy and he got very congested so we had to give him powders to keep his lungs clear . |
| 19 | He was sure that he was saved because he had the words of Christ and they had given him assurance . |
| 20 | But they had given him photographs . |
| 21 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 22 | In that first parliament of his , immediately after his coronation , he had refrained from asking for money , had even prided himself on his princely forbearance , and believed it had won him friends and trust . |
| 23 | Hazel was beginning to feel that all would be well and that Bigwig had more sense than he had given him credit for , when Fiver sat up on his hind legs , cleaned his face with his paws and then , for the first time , looked directly at him . |
| 24 | However , so keen was Germi to get Dustin that he had made him co-producer , and allowed him equal say as to how the role was to be played . |
| 25 | He was already owed money by Hope for the times he had taken him fishing . |
| 26 | Neither of us had noticed him pocket it . |