Example sentences of "have [verb] he [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 2 | One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman . |
| 3 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 4 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 5 | He went straight to the practice putting green to cure a defect that has robbed him of a commanding lead . |
| 6 | Although he left no explicit statement of belief , recent scholarship has shown him as a consistent sponsor of reform , both in his local activities and as an intermediary between suitors and the Crown . |
| 7 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 8 | But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch . |
| 9 | The official receiver or whoever is the chairman of the meeting must certify the appointment of the trustee , but not until the per son appointed has provided him with a written statement that he is a qualified insolvency practitioner and consents to act ( r 6.120(2) ) . |
| 10 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |
| 11 | THE BUCK STOPS HERE : Trevor McDonald 's distinguished career has taken him from a poor , but loving , childhood in Trinidad to being ITN 's first solo anchorman Picture : BILL KENNEDY |
| 12 | Peter says that the weekend has left him with a lasting impression of the professionalism of the TA . |
| 13 | For Wesker , the fortunes of Shylock have been all too typical of a career plagued by bad luck which has left him with a sizeable canon of rarely performed work . |
| 14 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 15 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 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 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 18 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 19 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 20 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 21 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 22 | ‘ Until this happened , I would have described him as a conventional Anglican . |
| 23 | Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort . |
| 24 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 25 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 26 | He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club . |
| 27 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 28 | It was as if she had shot him with a tranquillising dart . |
| 29 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 30 | I 've seen him in a proper leather jacket . |