Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] he the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 4 | I had to ask him the way to the police station . |
| 5 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 6 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 7 | I had to tell him the news myself |
| 8 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 9 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 10 | I 've given him the newspaper to read — I thought it might take his mind off things . ’ |
| 11 | I 've brought him the programs he asked for . ’ |
| 12 | He is merely expressing a suspicion , and in a sense a hope ( ‘ when she has given him the clap , then he 'll come back to me ’ , to modernize it somewhat ) . |
| 13 | Sherie intends to take Neil on holiday after Christmas to help him over his ordeal — after she has bought him the mountain bike he has set his heart on . |
| 14 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 15 | ‘ Little things , ’ he 'd said when , just before he fell asleep , she 'd asked him the question once more . |
| 16 | Then she 'd shown him the book : a very rare volume indeed . |
| 17 | The day she 'd shown him the photograph … |
| 18 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 19 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 20 | Would she have allowed him the use of it in any outside circumstance , anywhere that open sexual contact would be anything other than common and unremarkable , and was he being honest in trying to tap some dry spring of old feelings to further his own ends now ? |
| 21 | She left Philip to his labours , thinking that this time she had given him the money for the materials but none for his labour . |
| 22 | At this point the GP had felt that she could no longer help him , and she had given him the number of a marital counsellor . |
| 23 | His hand toyed mercilessly with her breasts , as if he had the right ; perhaps she had given him the right ; as if he owned her and she existed solely for his capricious use . |
| 24 | Then her father returned , and she had to tell him the story all over again . |
| 25 | She was in a mindless world where she had forgotten everything about why he was there , mindless that not half an hour ago she had thought him the most hateful of men when , abruptly , shatteringly , he suddenly stilled . |
| 26 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 27 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 28 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 29 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |
| 30 | She had shown him the book where it was illustrated . |