Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] he " in BNC.

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1 Oliver 's experience of returning to Metastasio 's original text has given him a new respect for that most maligned of operatic dramatists .
2 Whilst initially not as financially rewarding , the change in direction has brought him increasing recognition .
3 Strach has missed him overlapping too … gives him options and a bit of space to do the damage .
4 Already this freedom has benefited him , and when I know of the good I have done him , I feel that freedom is the only way to greater purity …
5 But Patrick has proved he can break away from his Mr Menacing image .
6 His behaviour may be such as to demonstrate that his reversion has taken him right back to the use of the ruthlessness which preceded civilisation .
7 SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough .
8 Just as they appeared to be succeeding , former Mayor Dudley Aldridge has hinted he might stand as an indepedent Tory against Mr Taylor .
9 ‘ The boy 's worth a fortune to me — and now a drunken gang has lost him .
10 According to yesterday 's report , the man has decided to come forward because the gang has told him they are ending his regular cash payments , which he used to collect in London .
11 Maj Trotter has said he knew most of the walkers using his land , adding most preferred the more circuitous route alongside a beck .
12 Bearing in mind that Mr Steel probably on his own admission has said he 's been a bit late out of the starting blocks in order to make his bid for a review of the allocations , er I mean how do you feel in response to that ?
13 It may be that the curiosity of Frederick I having a red beard has caused him to remain in the popular imagination : red-headed men and women have many superstitions attached to them , particularly red-headed kings .
14 The winning issue carried an impressive number of topics from six pages of news items , to Thai Shell 's centenary and a meaty , commissioned article by political economist Susan Strange on corporate glue ; it 's the only corporate publication within the Shell group at a public level , ’ says Felton , adding that over the five years of his editorship , Shell has allowed him ‘ an awful lot of space ’ .
15 His antiquarian temperament has made him a greater snapper-up of unconsidered trifles of archaeology , architecture and literature .
16 But Mr Lawson has to show he knows how to do the trick , before he can win his argument , in theory or in the markets .
17 Slaven said : ‘ Pally has said he will kick me up in the air if he gets a chance .
18 Instead , he ended up in charity administration , but his earlier sense of a religious vocation has left him with quite another side : a passion for Romanesque churches .
19 His quest for glory has caused him to stretch his energies to the absolute limit .
20 VETERAN actor Sir John Mills has revealed he is going blind .
21 But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action .
22 His experience of flying this route has led him to conclude that the bravery and daring of the crews who took [ part in these raids was quite remarkable and deserves to be more widely known .
23 The reader for his part is drawn into the discourse role that the writer has cast him in ( for further discussion see Widdowson 1979 : Paper 13 ; 1984a : Section 2 ) .
24 and he 's listening to a tape that his mum has sent him .
25 Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker has said he does not now believe it would be right to continue with the proposed closures because of the entirely unacceptable numbers of prisoners held in police cells .
26 Ian Barker , who recently completed the course at Wigan College , said the course has given him both invaluable background and new direction in what is too often seen as the poor relation of the building industry .
27 Dean has told him he would do all his running and Dalian decided here was the guy he had waited for throughout his career , ’ said the Villa manager .
28 The university has dumped him .
29 Given this , he is clearly not the servant to ‘ Peace and Humanity ’ that Leeds University has billed him , and there must surely be many people who deserve the honour more obviously .
30 The Secretary of State may only exercise his power under section 61(1) of the Act of 1967 to release on licence a prisoner serving a life sentence if : ( a ) the Parole Board has recommended he should do so ; and ( b ) he has consulted with the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge if available .
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