Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 2 | He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers . |
| 3 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 4 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 5 | Minton explained that he had recognised him from a self-portrait that had been exhibited at the AIA Gallery in London . |
| 6 | He had seen him in the city . |
| 7 | He had never been this close to him before , though of course he had seen him from a distance on parade , the short , brisk figure in green and white , dwarfed by the forest of cocked hats around , yet somehow contriving to dominate them all . |
| 8 | He had questioned him on his knowledge of Reading , and his whereabouts on 22 June . |
| 9 | He let his mind play over the man as he had felt him at their meeting , as he now knew him from his books : vain , opinionated , hearty , joky . |
| 10 | Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it . |
| 11 | It seemed improper somehow that someone like Tulagai , his motives suspect , should mock Siban , who had served the Khanate so well , and Alexei thought that he was sorry that he had goaded him into leaving . |
| 12 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 13 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 14 | Henry knew nothing about the new papal anathemas of which Anselm was the bearer , and he immediately required him first to renew the homage which he had done to Rufus , and then to consecrate his chancellor William Giffard to the bishopric of Winchester , with which he had invested him on his coronation day . |
| 15 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 16 | Wickham had been impressed with Shildon when he had interviewed him after his amended statement . |
| 17 | Paddick told him it was because he had watched him at work for so long . |
| 18 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
| 19 | As the York writer noted , the king did not love Anselm after he had thwarted him in the matter of investitures . |
| 20 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 21 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 22 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 23 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 24 | He had put him in the Cabinet because , with Bonar Law gone , he needed a man from the Law stable to preserve the balance . |
| 25 | He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required . |
| 26 | Strange how he had given that start when he had addressed him as Sir Joseph . |
| 27 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 28 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 29 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |