Example sentences of "had he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we had him for the weekend and er looking back on the weekend we were reasonably impressed with the man and his wife . |
| 2 | They had him on the floor . |
| 3 | This was the fifth time I had him on the floor , so the referee was right to stop it ’ . |
| 4 | The story was based on the real-life birth of Crawford 's younger daughter , Lucy , and had him on the hospital delivery table at one point , after fainting . |
| 5 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 6 | You had him at the Lord Howe , that 's the last I know . |
| 7 | Things were put in his tyres to cause a puncture , which had him under the most extreme tension and pressure . |
| 8 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 9 | You had him in the palm of your hand and let him escape . |
| 10 | Almost trembling with haste , I put the binoculars up again , found him , activated the automatic focus , pressed the button , heard the quiet click of the shutter : had him in the bag . |
| 11 | Penn 's next film had him in the headlines again . |
| 12 | But I started labour and just had him in the room . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 14 | A constable had him by the arm and was turning him about — was that all ? no arguments ? |
| 15 | But she turned away without looking at him and the next moment Doyle had him by the arm and was hauling him upstairs . |
| 16 | Todger practically had him by the throat . |
| 17 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 18 | But if he was going to carry the coffin he had to go to the funeral service , so the Church had him by the balls again , as it had , more or less , since he was born . |
| 19 | ‘ No I had him by the balls . |
| 20 | For once they had him by the balls . |
| 21 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 22 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |