Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Madame had given him her advice , she did n't interfere . |
| 2 | His own father had given him his creed for life — ‘ the best is only just good enough for you ’ — and he himself preached that doctrine until the day he died , in 1987 . |
| 3 | That 's why they had given him his Wings . |
| 4 | Nicholson recognized later that Mud had given him his head ; he appreciated the responsibility and did not do anything too foolish ; irresponsibility came later when he was well outside of any parental influence . |
| 5 | Even before Jack had given him his instructions he was moaning , silly old bastard . |
| 6 | It was his battalion 's heroic defence of their positions on the Basra to Baghdad road , when the rats from Iran had swarmed in their thousands from the marshlands , that had given him his present renown . |
| 7 | This had given him his name , Thlayli , which means , literally , " Furhead " , or as we might say , " Bigwig " . |
| 8 | ‘ I had never met the man , but a friend had given him my number in case he could help me with my research , ’ says Lynsey . |
| 9 | And his own man in Atlanta , where his straight talking and his independence had won him his next posting . |
| 10 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 11 | It was this willingness , free from any sense of banality , to dress traditional teaching in modern cliché , which had won him his bishopric . |
| 12 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 13 | They had made him their leader and Nuadu , cynical and bitter against his own kind , had thought that for all he was a base-born prince , still he had a Court of a kind and subjects of a sort . |
| 14 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 15 | The pet shop where his grandad had bought him his hamster called Hammer and his goldfish called Sickle and where his nan used to take them for resurrection when they died . |
| 16 | At Question Time today , the Prime Minister , in ruling out a referendum , boasted that the right hon. Lady in her speech yesterday had promised him her full support . |
| 17 | The barman at the Tomorrowman polished up his impersonations and looked forward to the day after tomorrow , when Rex had promised him his own show . |
| 18 | Edith had been pregnant and alone , the salesman abandoning her when she had told him her condition . |
| 19 | Two days ago , after his daughter had told him her story , he had immediately contacted an enquiry agent whom he knew to be trustworthy and told him to find out all that he could about Dr Neil Cochrane , Sir Alastair Cochrane 's younger brother . |
| 20 | That lunchtime they had told him their research was complete , but they had a day spare and were enjoying themselves . |
| 21 | He added that several people had told him their windows had been covered in oil again — a problem most islanders faced ten weeks ago when the Braer hit rocks near Sumburgh . |
| 22 | But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club . |
| 23 | But she had told him his affair was the last straw . |
| 24 | But a few weeks earlier he had tentatively approached his departmental head to point out that the qualification which had got him his original interview was a first-class degree in French and Spanish , and that perhaps these abilities might be harnessed to the service of the business . |
| 25 | The AIS officer in charge was helpful , once Myeloski had shown him his warrant-card , and helped the Englishman plan his route . |
| 26 | The first Headmaster of the Bermondsey Asylum was Joseph Watson , a nephew of Thomas Braidwood , who had shown him his personal technique of teaching deaf and dumb children . |
| 27 | Stella heard about O'Hara from the child playing Slightly , so called because when his mother had abandoned him his vest had been slightly soiled . |
| 28 | DeVore who had found him his first , important contacts in City America . |
| 29 | His apostasy had cost him his empire . |
| 30 | The idea of going into the deserts of the north to found a new religious colony had no attraction for him , and he was beginning to think that , for all the patina of civilisation which he had reassumed , Surere 's years of imprisonment had cost him his reason . |