Example sentences of "had [verb] him [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who , she wondered , had hated him enough to break his neck ? |
| 2 | She had dismissed him quite brutally , relegating him to the status of a passing fancy , or less . |
| 3 | So , if the holder of a bill of exchange were suing the acceptor , and the acceptor were to complain that the holder had treated him hardly , or that the bill ought never to have been circulated , and the holder were to say , Now , if you will not make any more complaints , I will not sue you . |
| 4 | I said that was n't the point , that Frank had lost his mind a little because Mazzin and the others in the past had treated him so badly . |
| 5 | Paul admitted he was angry with his father and had treated him roughly . |
| 6 | Strong-willed and ambitious for her children , she did not retain the affection of her youngest child , Samuel , despite her early devotion to him , and left him in adult life with an obscure and painful sense that she had treated him cruelly . |
| 7 | Fortunately Chief Petty Officer Richard Saunders RN , my husband 's father , had taught him very early how to box the compass and he was able to bring her north of Scotland , round our north eastern seaboard and bring her in to Chatham dockyard for paying-off . |
| 8 | Life here had taught him that much caution , strongly as it ran against his nature . |
| 9 | They had taught him that much in the Army . |
| 10 | The last few months had taught him quite clearly that a good knowledge of writing , reading and arithmetic was no longer enough . |
| 11 | A restless movement on his part betrayed that she had provoked him once more , but in a different fashion . |
| 12 | His intellectual and emotional itinerary between 1924 and 1927 is the record of a deepening crisis brought on by a growing realisation of the political and social dimension of his current lifestyle , an awareness that his pursuit of academic excellence and success had implicated him personally in a way of life that contradicted , subverted and emasculated the values and beliefs of his own social origins . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't forget the unforgettable , ’ he said , so softly that for a moment Merrill wondered if she had heard him correctly . |
| 14 | She had aroused him so much that he wanted to take her here and now , on the ground . |
| 15 | He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England . |
| 16 | At home in Northumberland long ago , there had been a painting by Sickert whose poignancy and brilliance had stopped him nightly on his way to bed . |
| 17 | She had frightened him properly this time . |
| 18 | On one of his recent trips they had frightened him so much that he dropped his food and had to watch helplessly while they devoured every last scrap of it . |
| 19 | Neither then , nor later : Carrie never mentioned Druid 's Bottom after that day , not to him , nor to their mother , and because she had frightened him so badly , crying like that , neither did he . |
| 20 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 21 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |
| 22 | But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , a tiny smile did play round his features when he introduced bras and kets and one had the feeling that this little joke had given him as much pleasure as anything . |
| 24 | He went to Rose too , but her mother had given him any there were . |
| 25 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 26 | Life had given him very little , just taught him to snatch any opportunities that came his way and use them to his advantage . |
| 27 | But by keeping him secret she had given him too much power . |
| 28 | Without him , Arthur Porritt later recalled , ‘ the momentum of the movement swiftly spent itself ’ and although many had criticized him greatly for his involvement in Liberal party manoeuvrings ( which will be discussed in Chapter 9 ) , all recognized his gift of organization , something which ‘ amounted to genius ’ . |
| 29 | She disliked the wretched man so intensely that she did n't care if she never had to see him again . |
| 30 | ‘ Your father told me he 'd gone to Australia and Aunt Pamela had joined him there , ’ Harry replied . |