Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 2 | When de Man subjects the metaphor of the fountain to " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , he apparently loses sight of the way that his own conception of metaphor as " intratextual complementarity " of inside and outside has led him towards the aporia . |
| 3 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 4 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 5 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 6 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 7 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 8 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 9 | As for King Arthur , Tolkien might well have seen him as a symptom of English vagueness . |
| 10 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |
| 11 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 12 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 13 | The boy was by now so full of cake he was like a sackful of wet cement and you could n't have hurt him with a sledge-hammer . |
| 14 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 15 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 16 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 17 | Nate would never have taken him off the presentation if he was n't being moved sideways or demoted . |
| 18 | They should never have let him into the RAF — ca n't think why they did n't spot it . |
| 19 | Pure hackit anyhow Ah 'd never have lumbered him in the daylight . |
| 20 | Now , to confound her , there was that man — if she truly had recognised him in the wreck she had seen . |