Example sentences of "had [vb pp] he the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 2 | But they had all laughed and Meg , for the missing loaf , had punished him the usual way , locked-up thirsty in the room . |
| 3 | He disputed that Royan was at risk : he had given him the correct treatment and calm reassurance — which was the essence of his treatment . |
| 4 | She sometimes had given him the spare front door key but he denied having had the key on the day of her death . |
| 5 | Paris had given him the intellectual edge and the authority to do this . |
| 6 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 7 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |
| 8 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 9 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 10 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 11 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 12 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 13 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 14 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 15 | Yesterday Mr Hall said he was dissatisfied with the service he had received from Reg Vardy 's at Houghton-Le-Spring who had sold him the luxury car . |
| 16 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |
| 17 | DeVore who had shown him the top-security files detailing the deals Klaus Ebert had struck with various Companies to destroy Curval 's own enterprise . |
| 18 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |
| 19 | But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination . |