Example sentences of "had [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 2 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 3 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 4 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 5 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 6 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |
| 7 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 10 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 11 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 12 | At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous . |
| 13 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 14 | 780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
| 15 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 16 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 17 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |
| 18 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
| 19 | He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground . |
| 20 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 21 | It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat . |
| 22 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 23 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 24 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 25 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 26 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 27 | Many heiresses could give him dollars , few could offer him the appearance and manner of a lady — it was that which had attracted him after the cruder charms of such as Maybelle Foy . |
| 28 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 29 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 30 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |