Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 7 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's in here ? ’ said Lee , opening the door of the room that Mrs Wright had taken him into , to see the birds ' eggs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or perhaps it was like one of those big animals Grimma had showed him in a book once . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ukraine 's national poet voiced the robust verdict of an unforgiving nation : ‘ If only mother Ukraine had strangled him in the cradle . ’ |
| 16 | Svein of Denmark had betrayed him with Siward . |
| 17 | Mountbatten had wanted him to be a leader of men . |
| 18 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 19 | Wang Sau-leyan was sitting in the far corner of the room , turning the gift the Ping Tiao had given him in his hands , studying it . |
| 20 | I suspected that Fenella had bullied him into it . |
| 21 | This propaganda role of the church was no mere cynical response to royal commands and requests ; many of the clergy were quite as deeply imbued with a sense of national self-righteousness as were substantial elements of the laity : Edward III later recalled that Archbishop Stratford had persuaded him of the need for such a war , though the king also told a tale of Stratford 's reluctance for war . |
| 22 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 23 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 24 | Therefore Sharpe must die , and if he was not to be killed in a duel , then he must be taken care of in another way and , in the darkness as Lord John had said his farewells , Jane had urged him to the other way . |
| 25 | He had started to move forward but Maggie had fixed him with her clear grey eyes and he knew what she knew herself — break into this now and Ana would refuse to stay here . |
| 26 | Earlier he had visited the American Consulate , where an attractive and sympathetic fellow countrywoman from North Carolina had advised him on all the sad yet necessary procedures consequent upon the death of an American national in Britain , and acquainted him with the costs of the transatlantic conveyancing of corpses . |
| 27 | Van Gelder also knew it , Denholm had reassured him on that point . |
| 28 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 29 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 30 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |