Example sentences of "had not [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 2 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 3 | It had not struck him until now that this was an inadequate hiding place . |
| 4 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 5 | The Russian invasion of Hungary made Nicholas look like a firebrand , but it had not involved him in taking many risks . |
| 6 | Dinah , who had not liked him at Hampstead , did not like him now ; but the information he brought was useful . |
| 7 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 8 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 9 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 10 | I had not asked him for anything , nor had I expected anything . |
| 11 | He ridiculed the ceremonies in impeccable prose , and disparaged the British Minister and his family , who had not invited him to lunch . |
| 12 | ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ? |
| 13 | They had not warned him about its appearance ; the head was nearly severed , and the face slashed to pieces by a whip . |
| 14 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 15 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 16 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 17 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 18 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 19 | I had not seen him since 1982 , but when we met again in his home near Salzburg in March 1988 to record radio and television interviews on the occasion of his 80th birthday he was quite unchanged , as courteous and welcoming as ever and perfectly settled within himself . |
| 20 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 21 | She would get to work on Maxie just as soon as his presence at home should coincide with hers ; she had not seen him since returning from the tea , except when crawling wearily into bed . |
| 22 | Carrie asked them anxiously , and they only said that they had not seen him without saying how ridiculous the question was . |
| 23 | By leaving Brentwoods earlier than anticipated , she had not seen him through the publication of his novel . |
| 24 | Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’ |
| 25 | Geraldine had not seen him in pyjamas before . |
| 26 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 27 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 28 | He was neither pallid nor flabby , prison had not marked him in the ways she expected . |
| 29 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 30 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |