Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 2 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 3 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 4 | It was not until the oriental had addressed the armed newcomer with the blackened face , that the two youngsters had recognised him as the private detective Brett Grant . |
| 5 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 6 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 7 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 8 | Perhaps the mad fuckers had hung him in an abattoir . |
| 9 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 10 | The torturers had chained him to a wall , applying searing hot pokers to the softest and most tender parts of his body . |
| 11 | Many of Voight 's films have cast him as a none-too-bright but likeable hunk . |
| 12 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 13 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 14 | Anand made the announcement after student leaders had presented him with a petition calling for the lifting of martial law . |
| 15 | Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system . |
| 16 | Two men had followed him up the stairs . |
| 17 | Ashi had met him during the height of the oil boom , when the late Shah was pouring the country 's new-found wealth into creating an entire new infrastructure for a land that had hardly changed since biblical times . |
| 18 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 19 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 20 | Society and its rules had trapped him in a corner . |
| 21 | He had smiled at the frontier guards and kept walking with his rucksack slung over one shoulder … until the hand had clamped on his collar , and the boots had pitched him into a cell . |
| 22 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 23 | The politicians had trapped him into a game played by their rules . |
| 24 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |