Example sentences of "have [vb pp] he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 32 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 37 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 38 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 39 | He was described as an enthusiastic , determined and well-turned-out soldier with leadership qualities which could have taken him to the top warrant officer rank . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 42 | ‘ Until this happened , I would have described him as a conventional Anglican . |
| 43 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 44 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 45 | Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort . |
| 46 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 47 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 48 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 49 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 50 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 51 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 52 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 55 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 56 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 57 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 58 | Many heiresses could give him dollars , few could offer him the appearance and manner of a lady — it was that which had attracted him after the cruder charms of such as Maybelle Foy . |
| 59 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 60 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |