Example sentences of "had [verb] him [adj] [noun] " 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 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He tried to hide the crease of worry on his features , but when she asked him whether the debtors had given him extra time he frowned and shook his head . |
| 5 | Then , for the first time in three decades , Mr Wolski had reached out his hands and touched the eagle he had loved and who had given him such comfort for so long . |
| 6 | His mother had given him contrary messages . |
| 7 | In a lengthy letter he gave thanks to the Duke of Bedford and to the House of Russell and to the Earl of Upper Ossory , who had given him great support throughout his period of office . |
| 8 | Spending his five shillings had given him great satisfaction , particularly as none of it had been wasted . |
| 9 | ‘ We , the second generation of Pininfarina , had given him great joy and pride . |
| 10 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 11 | Keith also revealed that his estranged wife , TV presenter Maggie Philbin , had given him brilliant support throughout his personal crisis . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His cheeks were sunken and the onset of years had given him heavy jowls . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 17 | The Colonel , the Honourable , the Member of Parliament had given him more access to what nearly approached aristocratic companionship than he had ever enjoyed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Hayman had given him 48 hours . |
| 20 | If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant . |
| 21 | The articles opened with the comprehensively damning statement that the king ‘ is not sufficient to govern ’ because throughout his reign he had been led and governed by others who had given him evil counsel , to the dishonour of himself and the destruction of Holy Church and his people , and he had refused to provide any remedy , or to allow one to be made , when he was asked to do so by the great and wise men of his realm . |
| 22 | He had a good later reputation , and according to Osbern was very acceptable to Cnut because he had given him holy chrism . |
| 23 | She had given him some newspaper torn into squares and a glass of dark-brown liquid that tasted like spanish water . |
| 24 | Perhaps he had given him some idea of when he would be home . |
| 25 | She had given him some gift , something which he cherished very dearly . |
| 26 | After he 'd found the half-burned counterfoil slips from the railway tickets stuffed down the back of the apartment 's disused fireplace , his next move had been to return to his Militia post and report that an anonymous source had given him some information on the whereabouts of Alina Petrovna , escapee from the prison hospital and probable murderer of the psychiatrist Belov . |
| 27 | I have never forgotten that near the end of his life my Father told me that in his loneliness Basil was the one of his five children who had given him most sympathy and understanding . |
| 28 | Life , Blanche soon discovered , had given him few reasons to do so . |
| 29 | The proctor minor of his chamber , Baal Firenze , had assigned him this mission , presumably acting on the instructions of a Hidden Master . |
| 30 | Colin 's conservativism and steady timing had won him second place . |