Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and his time on Earth had taught him to feel cold as an intellectual concept , if not a physical one , and he might have wished to take shelter . |
| 2 | Rough told how his wife Michelle had taught him to keep fresh food away from detergents . |
| 3 | She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant . |
| 4 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 5 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 6 | Bet bloody Matt 's been getting at him probably knew the camera had caught him looking shit-scared . |
| 7 | Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership . |
| 8 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 9 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 10 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 11 | She had seen him like this before , the night they 'd met , when he 'd been determined to have his own way ; she 'd seen him like this again , when he 'd announced she was not going to return to Milan … |
| 12 | He was n't sure what impulse had made him go first to Harry Mack 's body . |
| 13 | They were the first enemy troops he had ever seen and the sight of them had made him go pale . |
| 14 | The suggestion had made him go silent . |
| 15 | And it had made him feel big in a way that had nothing to do with macho trappings . |
| 16 | None of the women he had met in Mandru 's house had made him feel ugly . |
| 17 | What on earth had made him say that ? |
| 18 | She had made him come alive in heart and mind . |
| 19 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 20 | His uncle Cornelius , head of the van Gogh art business in Amsterdam , had commissioned him to make twelve small pen drawings of The Hague . |
| 21 | Even his colleagues had been alarmed by James Harding 's confused state of mind , and had persuaded him to seek medical help . |
| 22 | Although Donleavy had told him to stay clear of American officials overseas in case they were under surveillance by foreign intelligence agencies , Coleman assumed that Sasser had cleared the meeting with Control and drove up from Larnaca to keep the appointment , expecting to be briefed on some unexpected emergency . |
| 23 | How strange , thought Charsky , that he had watched him fall asleep here on his last night on earth . |
| 24 | She had watched him leave all those years ago , he thought . |
| 25 | The actual sedition charge , however , reportedly arose from an article on tribalism , in which Imanyara wrote that some readers had contacted him to allege that undue favouritism was being shown in official quarters towards particular groups . |
| 26 | But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall . |
| 27 | This had entailed him working long hours . |
| 28 | Now he acknowledged to himself that his admiration for Sarah had caused him to overlook young Martha 's attractions . |
| 29 | He had found a job as watchman at the council depot but it had caused him to become morose and ailing . |
| 30 | This was another thing which had caused him to feel bitter . |