Example sentences of "had [verb] him on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to try three of the numbers which the Substitute had given him on identical slips of paper , each of which had ‘ after eight-thirty ’ written in small , neat writing across the bottom . |
| 2 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 3 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
| 4 | Sooner than he had expected , Harry found himself back in Swindon Central Library , this time perusing the national newspapers for 2 June 1987 in the hope of gleaning from them some clue as to what had eluded him on his visit to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 5 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 6 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 7 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 8 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 9 | He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers . |
| 10 | He was a good-looking man in his late thirties , and Fran had met him on several occasions but had never liked him , finding something faintly repugnant about the way he stood on the outside of life looking in , searching for anything unsavoury . |
| 11 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 12 | Slater had seen him on his BMW bike , or just getting off it . |
| 13 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 14 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 15 | He fought against the sensation that Molland had strapped him on a sort of conveyor belt in a factory that processed death . |
| 16 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
| 17 | ‘ One must n't take too much of a good thing , for money is easily spent ’ , said one of Beatrice Potter 's hosts , putting the cigarette she had offered him on the mantelpiece after one or two puffs , for the next night . |
| 18 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
| 19 | Gilmour Thom , 51 , an institutional salesman with Bell Lawrie White , told the court that after Mackie had briefed him on his meeting with Mr Runciman , he had sold about 1.5 million Shanks & McEwan shares at prices ranging from 305p to 318p . |
| 20 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 21 | She had got him on Mr Skinner , though . |
| 22 | In Paris itself , his priority , thanks to Schellenberg , had got him on the Berlin Express , but B17 bombers of the American 8th Air Force operating out of England had inflicted severe damage on the Frankfurt railway marshalling yards . |
| 23 | Henry knew nothing about the new papal anathemas of which Anselm was the bearer , and he immediately required him first to renew the homage which he had done to Rufus , and then to consecrate his chancellor William Giffard to the bishopric of Winchester , with which he had invested him on his coronation day . |
| 24 | And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 25 | And then he knew what it was that had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 26 | Buckmaster had hired him on the spot . |
| 27 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 28 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |
| 29 | Sorge had asked him on the way out of Washington . |
| 30 | ‘ How the hell did they get to England ? ’ the Exec Director had asked him on the phone . |