Example sentences of "had [verb] him of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His body ached mainly through lack of sleep , he told himself , reluctant to admit he was so unfit that a mile walk had drained him of energy . |
| 2 | In the slow movement , he generally retired into his own thoughts , poetically outlining the melodic shapes with a lyrical softness , but then , suddenly , landing lumpily on a note , as if the reverie had reminded him of a reality . |
| 3 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
| 4 | He had told Fahfakhs that Tepilit had actually killed a lion for the film that Claudia was making with Leavitt , whose name I had reminded him of . |
| 5 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 6 | Quentin had said that for a moment Kate had reminded him of Miss Trimm , and for another moment Lavinia imagined that : Kate at eighty-two , passionately involved with God . |
| 7 | Something she had said that had reminded him of it ; something she had said about it ? |
| 8 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 9 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 10 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 11 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
| 12 | This propaganda role of the church was no mere cynical response to royal commands and requests ; many of the clergy were quite as deeply imbued with a sense of national self-righteousness as were substantial elements of the laity : Edward III later recalled that Archbishop Stratford had persuaded him of the need for such a war , though the king also told a tale of Stratford 's reluctance for war . |
| 13 | His father 's men had told him of Marion Aluinn . |
| 14 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 15 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 16 | It was the memory of what they had told him of Callanish , and of the eagles that came from there . |
| 17 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 18 | Timex managers had told him of heavy losses in recent years and the possibility of more losses this year . |
| 19 | Timex management had told him of substantial losses in recent years and of the possibility of another massive deficit this year . |
| 20 | What an irony — the republican ideas they had accused him of propagating were exactly what he had left unsaid , and should have said . |
| 21 | She had accused him of leading her on . |
| 22 | Once , Jean-Paul had accused him of acting like God , and that accusation had stayed with him , paining him . |
| 23 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
| 24 | Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ . |
| 25 | The charges , filed in January 1989 , had accused him of ordering the shooting in 1986 of John O'Connor , an official of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America [ see p. 36680 ] . |
| 26 | A police inspector , Saul Clavería , had obtained permission to defend his honour after alleging that the editor of the daily newspaper La República , Federico Fassano , had accused him of involvement in the smuggling of contraband from Brazil . |
| 27 | Walesa 's critics had accused him of dangerous populism which threatened political and economic stability . |
| 28 | Khatami 's resignation had been rumoured for some months , as conservative newspapers had accused him of " leniency " towards the " corrupt , Westernized " Iranian intellectuals and artists , especially those in exile . |
| 29 | Maybe she had accused him of doing appalling things with Badger . |
| 30 | The one beside him had accused him of ‘ grassing ’ and told him if he did not admit it he would have his face ripped open . |