Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.

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1 The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town .
2 I thought it was very unfortunate that Catherine had only given him a daughter , not a son .
3 Jacqui had only given him the Christian name .
4 If Steen was there , Charles had only to tell him the truth ; if he was n't , then he could leave the photographs with an anonymous note explaining Jacqui 's innocence .
5 If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence .
6 Pope Gregory VIII ( the former chancellor , Albert de Morra , who had contacts with France ) , who enjoyed only a ten-week pontificate , had already made him a subdeacon between October and December 1187 .
7 If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence .
8 I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview .
9 This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’
10 One had already borne him a son ; one would do so soon .
11 He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue .
12 Peters 's independent approach to economic policy — particularly his reservations concerning the social consequences of economic deregulation — had already earned him a shadow Cabinet demotion in 1989 .
13 St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order !
14 If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future .
15 Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done .
16 He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) .
17 She had not imagined him a sportsman .
18 He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says .
19 His gloom was reinforced because the Lebanese embassy had just refused him a visa and the only two countries he thought he could get into were Jordan and Romania , neither of which were likely to offer him employment .
20 The Shah did no like Bakhtir - " I had always considered him an Anglophile and an agent of British Petroleum . "
21 He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review .
22 He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily .
23 ‘ Fortunately for you , ’ she agreed swiftly , having momentarily forgotten that she had deliberately given him the impression that she wanted their affair kept secret .
24 Mine had the same amount , while Thessy 's only contained a hundred , though the proctologist had also given him the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat .
25 She had stupidly given him the name Marie and he had latched on to it .
26 And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at .
27 She had n't rejected him the first time , though , just evaded a decision , wanting him to strengthen it somehow .
28 The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain .
29 Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy )
30 It was over , he was unhurt , and it had n't cost him a penny apart from the few pence in his pocket — and as the kidnapping was n't what was eating his heart out he knew he could n't pretend it was .
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