Example sentences of "had [verb] him [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 2 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 3 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 4 | Perhaps the mad fuckers had hung him in an abattoir . |
| 5 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 6 | At one level Jamaica had provided him with an intense visual experience . |
| 7 | And yet , tonight , some demon that she did n't understand had driven him to an act she was sure he was now bitterly regretting . |
| 8 | And yet the reluctance of the villagers to discuss Rose 's unexplained death had lured him like an irresistible hint of treasure . |
| 9 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 10 | Griffin 's first round victory had left him with an eye fully closed which eventually opened slightly before last night 's win against Franke . |
| 11 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 12 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |
| 13 | The angry look on the judge 's sallow face showed that either his attendance in court that morning or Cranston 's arrival had put him in an ill humour . |
| 14 | She had sent him in an ambulance to Crosshouse Hospital . |
| 15 | Under the old system , the Leader of the PLP would be seen to enjoy the confidence of that body because it had elected him through an exhaustive ballot . |
| 16 | They had cornered him in an alley . |