Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 2 | And his mum Sherie has promised him the best one ever . |
| 3 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 4 | Anyway , there 's certainly no way I 'm going to start physio on him the way things are , or at least until you or Dr Grant have given him the OK . ’ |
| 5 | Paris had given him the intellectual edge and the authority to do this . |
| 6 | ‘ And Seb 's ridden him a few times . |
| 7 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 8 | They had once shared an apartment in Beirut , and when Hamadan later moved to Poland to run the Jafaars ' heroin export business to the Eastern bloc through their offices in Warsaw , Younis had paid him an extended visit there . |
| 9 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |
| 10 | Edward , whose joyful encounter with Joan de Warenne had given him a further reason for wishing to gain his freedom , sought for some means of contacting his mother . |
| 11 | In addition , Seb 's fight with Boz had made him a temporary focus for their anger . |
| 12 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 13 | Cummins has offered him a senior position with the company and the chance to spearhead its attempts to break into the East European engine market . |
| 14 | But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination . |
| 15 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |
| 16 | He grinned ; at least Myeloski had sent him a beautiful woman and not a dog . |
| 17 | Lorton had lent him a black Balaclava helmet which covered all of his head except the eyes and the bridge of the nose ; feeling like a trainee terrorist , he pulled it on ; he was grateful for its warmth . |
| 18 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 19 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |