Example sentences of "[indef pn] had [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 2 | He gasped as though someone had stabbed him through the heart . |
| 3 | And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 4 | Then , on went the lights followed by another scream from ‘ Lousy Lou ’ — someone had relieved him of his tins as well . |
| 5 | nobody 'd told him , and then when I got in touch with him erm he said no nobody had told him about it . |
| 6 | Somebody had pushed him to his death from a window in Oxford in 1968 and , twenty years later , Harry was pursuing the consequences . |
| 7 | No one had charged him with anything more serious than naivety and now he was one of the most successful fashion designers in New York . |
| 8 | Tech-Green had mourned his passing with hysterical fervour ; no one had replaced him in their pantheon . |
| 9 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 10 | John-William had not cut his wages this time , and no one had thanked him for it . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think anyone had warned him about how overwhelming that feeling of love can be . ’ |
| 12 | You 'd wonder nothing had got him by now . |
| 13 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
| 14 | No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose . |