Example sentences of "had [verb] him [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 2 | Every kind of reason for it went through her mind : the doctor had given him six months to live , his family was moving away from the area , he had been transferred to another school . |
| 3 | His mother had given him contrary messages . |
| 4 | They had been the more surprised when , at the age of 32 , she had married Sir Henry Berowne , apparently for less obvious qualities , and had given him two sons . |
| 5 | His headmaster , ( Sir ) Cyril Norwood [ q.v. ] , had given him two pieces of advice : to answer all letters by return of post , and never to be afraid of unpopularity . |
| 6 | His cheeks were sunken and the onset of years had given him heavy jowls . |
| 7 | Col James Bradshaw said Alan Jackson , who mysteriously vanished from his shop in Barnard Castle town centre , had given him three cheques but all had bounced . |
| 8 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 9 | Hayman had given him 48 hours . |
| 10 | Life , Blanche soon discovered , had given him few reasons to do so . |
| 11 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 12 | Donar began the final the under dog — Wilkinson had defeated him three weeks in a row with relative ease . |
| 13 | And before that , she had seen him several times . |
| 14 | He was n't married ; Charlie knew he was n't married ; knew moreover that his steady had chucked him two weeks before . |
| 15 | 94 , the plaintiff , a seaman , claimed that the defendant , the captain of his ship , had promised him five guineas over and above his ordinary wages if he would perform some extra work in navigating the ship , the promise having been made , when the ship was in danger , to induce the seamen to exert themselves . |
| 16 | It had promised him 1000 florins a year in a year 's time . |
| 17 | Manchester United had offered him increased terms to stay on the club 's playing staff ; several years later Chelsea offered him even more money to leave Swindon and he became the elite London club 's assistant-manager , but on both occasions Macari put the unspectacular west country side first . |
| 18 | William Connors had briefed him many times in the past , yet Delaney even now , was unsure of just where Connors fitted into the scheme of things . |
| 19 | ‘ So one hopes , ’ said Jared , amused at these revelations confirming what his daughter had told him two days ago . |
| 20 | John 's father had told him vague stories about a grandfather who was said to have spent his time in mysterious pursuits of his own , returning home at intervals to sire another child before disappearing again . |
| 21 | She had to give him full marks for originality . |
| 22 | Fry feared the worst when he arrived for training yesterday morning to find his wife had called him three times already . |
| 23 | But not before the advance guard had stung him 10 times . |
| 24 | Mandarin was eleven but showed no signs of losing the powers which had brought him numerous victories , including two in the King George VI Chase . |
| 25 | But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight . |
| 26 | They had hit him several times for lying . |
| 27 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
| 28 | It had cost him twenty-five shillings , but worth it because of not being able to keep it out of the library long . |
| 29 | Moreover , the fact that the embassy had already been delayed in Dover for a fortnight had cost him 14,000 crowns even before these further disasters . |
| 30 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |