Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion . |
| 2 | In The Wrench he creates the rigger Faussone , the practical man whose cranes girdle the world and who keeps returning , a little heavy-footed , to the house in Turin where two old aunts fuss over his welfare : Faussone was spoken of as ‘ my alter ego ’ , and the book has to struggle to accommodate him as a second person , available for interview by Levi . |
| 3 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 4 | Culley wondered why she 'd decided to let him off the hook . |
| 5 | ‘ Strangely enough , ’ Ockleton had said , Harry having to strain to hear him amidst the noise and smoke as closing time drew near , ‘ Rex was the one who seemed to interest Heather the most . |
| 6 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 7 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 8 | I should have kept my temper , she thought frantically ; I should never have tried to push him into the stream in the first place . |
| 9 | No one capable of creating kangaroos could have resisted hitting him in the face with a divine custard pie . |
| 10 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 11 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 12 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 13 | Otherwise one might not have minded asking him for a loan . |
| 14 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 15 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 16 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 17 | She had undertaken to contact him by the end of next week to report what progress she had made and he did not doubt she would do so , for she was a woman of her word . |
| 18 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 19 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 20 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 21 | Other Lancashire businessmen watching his progress had come to respect him as a red-hot entrepreneur and ruthless opponent in business dealings , for whom profit was the consideration that overrode every other . |
| 22 | But young children had reported spotting him inside the school , putting paper on to the fire . |
| 23 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 24 | To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 25 | His father had promised to drive him to the meeting and watch him get the award . |
| 26 | Okay , then you would all agree , you 've got to put him through the old P C course . |
| 27 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 28 | Then , turning towards his injured companion , ‘ We 've got to get him to a hospital , he 's hurt bad . ’ |
| 29 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 30 | Sort my love life with Rocky out , we 've had a bit of a tiff at the moment , as a result I 've had to drop him from the squad completely and he 'll probably go and join the scum where he 'll show me up like that poncy french bugger who used to play here . |