Example sentences of "had [verb] he on the " in BNC.
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1 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
2 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
3 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
4 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
5 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
6 | ‘ One must n't take too much of a good thing , for money is easily spent ’ , said one of Beatrice Potter 's hosts , putting the cigarette she had offered him on the mantelpiece after one or two puffs , for the next night . |
7 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
8 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
9 | In Paris itself , his priority , thanks to Schellenberg , had got him on the Berlin Express , but B17 bombers of the American 8th Air Force operating out of England had inflicted severe damage on the Frankfurt railway marshalling yards . |
10 | And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder . |
11 | And then he knew what it was that had tapped him on the shoulder . |
12 | Buckmaster had hired him on the spot . |
13 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |
14 | Sorge had asked him on the way out of Washington . |
15 | ‘ How the hell did they get to England ? ’ the Exec Director had asked him on the phone . |
16 | Leese claimed that his ‘ martyrdom ’ had been achieved against the wishes of the Jury who had acquitted him on the serious charge . |
17 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
18 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
19 | Lyall , who like the 42-year-old McGiven had his career cut short by injury at West Ham , groomed McGiven in the way that Ron Greenwood had groomed him on the coaching ladder . |
20 | On one occasion an Irish visitor asked a late tenant , Mr Crawshaw , if the lady in white who had passed him on the stairs would be coming down to breakfast soon . |
21 | The nightmare thing , the thing they had said was her brother ( but she knew that this was impossible ) had killed him on the staircase . |
22 | She had sent him on the way to solving the mystery of her husband 's murder . |
23 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
24 | In fact his father-in-law had congratulated him on the perfectly splendid bit of crackling Hugh had in his arms in Chancery Lane , and naturally mum was the word , and his lips were sealed as far as Molly Coddle was concerned . |
25 | He believed the Prince that it was de Craon who had informed him on the Sunday night but how had the Frenchman known ? |