Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One farmer in North Wales admitted that it was his wife who had trained him in lambing techniques after having been on a training course . |
| 2 | Did Obispal 's associates realize that the rashly rampaging Inquisitor was only present in this auditorium courtesy of Jaq 's Assassin who had plucked him to safety ? |
| 3 | Before Saragossa the two Frankish hosts joined together , and the king received homage from those Saracen chiefs who had invited him into Spain as their protector . |
| 4 | By pure chance , while walking up a street in London , Eric had met a friend who had invited him into White 's Club for a drink . |
| 5 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 6 | He had also telephoned an old friend , who had invited him to a birthday party the following weekend , which he was looking forward to , although with some apprehension . |
| 7 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 8 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 9 | The audience who had loved him as a stage juvenile were themselves growing old , and could not fail to notice the signs of ageing in their idol . |
| 10 | His father who mended the broken wings of birds , his mother who had loved him for his gentleness ? |
| 11 | There was something in her voice that reminded Tug that she was the one who had beaten him round the face . |
| 12 | Steve Cram had to face Sebastian Coe in the 1500 metres , the man who had beaten him in Los Angeles , and Daley Thompson was to meet his three main rivals in the decathlon — Hingsen , Wentz and Kratschmer — in front of their home crowd . |
| 13 | After tea , Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury , the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord 's . |
| 14 | She approved of the ‘ heavy merchant ’ who had replaced him with us . |
| 15 | Who 's Who had revealed him to be seventy-four : in the flesh he could have passed for ten years younger , despite having a head entirely free of hair . |
| 16 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 17 | It certainly would not be the sinister Treelike beings who had regarded him with such terrible vengeance in their unnatural faces ! |
| 18 | But he swore at a spectator who had provoked him during a game against Essex at Ilford and again on Sunday when he was racially abused on returning to the pavilion after scoring a half century which helped Middlesex clinch the Sunday League crown . |
| 19 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 20 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 21 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 22 | If he had added the name of Viola Angotti to the list of those who had hit him in the stomach Ezzie 's face would have screwed up with laughter . |
| 23 | But there was little chance of discovering who had killed him without help . |
| 24 | Suddenly before the altar a ‘ light shining from heaven , in the manner of a sunbeam ’ appeared , which was seen as a sign of divine approval of Stanford 's opposition to Edward II and the Pope , who had deposed him from the bishopric of Durham . |
| 25 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 26 | Hawk nodded to his father , the man who had tutored him as a Dreamwalker , and was not acknowledged . |
| 27 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 28 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 29 | ( Luke : Luke records that all his friends stood at a distance , including the women who had followed him from Galilee ( Luke 8:3 ) . ) |
| 30 | It was presumably Bruce Davidson , who admired and was annoyed by Francesca in about equal measure , and therefore took an unremitting interest in all her activities , who had favoured him with this . |