Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had great respect for Palmerston , but ‘ after the speeches he had heard him deliver on this subject , he would be extremely sorry to obey his edicts on matters of taste ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Friel had staggered back towards his friend 's house and they had heard him shouting for help . |
| 3 | She had stopped being so afraid once she had heard him talking to her mother . |
| 4 | She knew that dead people could be kept in this state because the man who lived next door to Mrs MacDonagh worked in an undertakers , and Ellie had heard him talking about it to Mrs MacDonagh . |
| 5 | One day , an important but superstitious client cancelled his insurance policy when the pen Waterman had given him to sign with refused to work . |
| 6 | Even the two youths who had attacked him had by now disappeared from view . |
| 7 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 8 | Economics had always been his strong point , and his family had expected him to go into Parliament . |
| 9 | She was n't sure how she had expected him to react to her announcement — gratitude or admiration might have been a bit much to hope for , she acknowledged wryly , but even a faint hint of relief would have been something . |
| 10 | If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week . |
| 11 | She had caught him flirting with another woman . |
| 12 | Too often she had caught him looking at her breasts . |
| 13 | Her mother , Lavender , had fallen in love with a scholarly man called Frederick Legh when she had met him walking on the Moor . |
| 14 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 15 | He was sure no one had noticed him talking to the journalist . |
| 16 | What had possessed him to surrender to his mother 's nagging ? |
| 17 | Of course , you may retort , as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire , that if I am correct in what I am saying , one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test . |
| 18 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 19 | There were lines now from nose to mouth ; the lips were stern ; she had seen him take in the room , who was there , with whom , with one cold appraising glance as he entered . |
| 20 | She had seen him surrounded by people shouting and screaming , ‘ Go on , my son ’ , not one of them down to lose or win as much as Jack , and he 'd just stand there like a beautiful , pale statue . |
| 21 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 22 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 23 | years which had seen him play in 62 Tests and make 189 dismissals , at the time the West Indian record by a street . |
| 24 | Charlotte had seen him turn in the doorway to speak to Mrs Lane , whose placid smile indicated that she knew and welcomed him . |
| 25 | Jessamy remembered all the times she had seen him look like that in the past , when he had n't wanted her to know what he was thinking or feeling . |
| 26 | That moment when she had seen him standing on the jetty , a tall dark figure against the bright sun , would remain locked in her memory foever . |
| 27 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 28 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 29 | If only she had seen him come into the shop — but she always seemed to miss him . |
| 30 | The Prince 's vanity had made him dress for a winter 's campaign on what threatened to be the summer 's hottest day yet . |