Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 2 | It had touched him on a raw spot . |
| 3 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 4 | Her existence , he now realised , had implications far beyond her abrasive and insistent presence : it had tethered him to a distant shore . |
| 5 | Under the old system , the Leader of the PLP would be seen to enjoy the confidence of that body because it had elected him through an exhaustive ballot . |
| 6 | Then he read a textbook of hers about the craft of the dramatist and it had stopped him from showing her anything for a year . |
| 7 | It had worried him for a moment , he had n't been quite sure what she meant , but then he reckoned she was referring to the troubles . |
| 8 | He was without a car for two days and claimed it had cost him at least £300 in business . |
| 9 | It had reduced him to the same level , just another anonymous treatment that her body had required . |
| 10 | It had failed him in a crisis and that was once too often . |
| 11 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 12 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 13 | It had left him with a feeling of self-satisfaction , a sense of having done something instead of standing helplessly in the shadows , aching with humiliation and guilty knowledge . |
| 14 | Like Paul , he had trained for the law in youth , and it had left him with a certain accuracy . |
| 15 | It had left him with a pronounced limp in his left leg . |