Example sentences of "has [vb pp] he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In America , where they have a fondness for creating lists of the greatest ever people , his Plight of English has placed him among the very top writers on the English language .
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 For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley .
12 It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last .
13 His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family .
14 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
15 Peter says that the weekend has left him with a lasting impression of the professionalism of the TA .
16 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 .
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