Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] him " in BNC.

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1 On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar .
2 About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it .
3 He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " .
4 St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order !
5 Rufus had simply not known who he was , Shiva was sure of that , had not recognized him as one of the other two male members of the little community in which they had all lived in such contiguity for something like two months .
6 Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform .
7 But at her door he was told he could not see her , and he realized she had not forgiven him .
8 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 .
9 I had not met him socially before , but we had once clashed in court when he was counsel representing the police at the Brabin Inquiry into the Timothy Evans case .
10 Walton had not met him , but interviewed his surviving friends ; the Life was written with the object of improving the standards of the clergy of the time by describing a golden age before the Civil War in which the aristocratic Herbert had renounced a brilliant career at university and at Court for the vocation of a country parson .
11 Mrs Scutt , being an old hospital bird , had no difficulty in translating Robins ' euphemistic message , or in placing Charlie , though she had not met him before .
12 He knew what she would be doing and why she had not called him .
13 He had spoken to no one about his discovery of Merymose 's body , not even to Taheb , who was distracted by the preparations for her reluctant departure , and had not questioned him when he told her that Merymose had not appeared at their meeting place .
14 Unless , of course , they had not wanted him to know , and had seen to it that he had no address for them .
15 The appointment had been purely political , for Wellington had not wanted him , and the exiled Prince had consequently been kept well away from any fighting , though the experience had nevertheless convinced the young man that he had a fine talent for soldiering .
16 She had not wanted him to respond with a show of good humour .
17 She had not wanted him to behave like ‘ darling Alexander ’ !
18 She had not stopped him .
19 She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city .
20 But he had not killed him .
21 I could tell from the blank embarrassment in Tom 's expression that she had not acknowledged him .
22 It had not struck him until now that this was an inadequate hiding place .
23 His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency .
24 The great issue of predestination had divided the movement for ‘ vital religion ’ from the outset : Whitefield had been a Calvinist , but the Wesley brothers had not followed him .
25 The Russian invasion of Hungary made Nicholas look like a firebrand , but it had not involved him in taking many risks .
26 Dinah , who had not liked him at Hampstead , did not like him now ; but the information he brought was useful .
27 She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners .
28 Sally-Anne knew that Neil was Stair 's brother ; she had met him , and had not liked him much .
29 The full force of being public property and pop royalty had not hit him — whereas Beatty , who was being chased by the news hounds from New York to Florida to the South of France , with Natalie in tow , had suddenly become the talk of the town .
30 I think I had not heard him cry for six years .
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