Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [prep] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His thoughts were spinning , mulling over what Joseph had said to him earlier . |
| 2 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
| 3 | Belinda had stumbled upon him one day several months ago when he was alone in a little-used store-room at the far end of the ward , and she had seen immediately that he was near to breaking down . |
| 4 | At a table in the alcove on the dining-room wall sat the girl Camb had brought to him earlier in the day , an elderly woman and a man . |
| 5 | Anticipating the harsh lighting in our room , Leslie had brought with him some candles , and I was touched by the romantic tenderness of the gesture . |
| 6 | For the past 7 years , his grandmother Pat Ayres and sister Barbara Smith have cared for him 24 hours a day . |