Example sentences of "had [verb] him [det] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He wound his window down and thought momentarily of his brother-in-law , Eddie Kruger , who had taught him all the conversational German he knew . |
2 | Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off . |
3 | General Orsborn recognised both him and the young Australian who had given him such a memorable welcome to her homeland . |
4 | That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion . |
5 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
6 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
7 | And a slight slip you know , had taken him half a thou over the bore . |
8 | It had taken him half an hour to get his hands and nails clean , using white spirit and a nailbrush as well as soap and water . |
9 | In Fredegar 's narrative Childeric was exiled from the Franks for his sexual profligacy , but he arranged with his faithful follower , Wiomad , that he would return when the latter had sent him half a coin which they had divided between them . |
10 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |