Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 2 | I do n't necessarily have to get him over-excited , mind , but the decision has to be mine . ’ |
| 3 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
| 4 | He took the boy 's small , still limp body in his arms , and wept with a passion of which his business associates would not have believed him capable . |
| 5 | Even so , I 'd not have thought him important enough . ’ |
| 6 | His pride could not have permitted him this simple insight . |
| 7 | In Mr Wolfenden 's case , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords Murray and Kincraig , decided that the stipendiary magistrate at Glasgow should not have found him guilty . |
| 8 | But we do not have to follow him further , to the view that authentic Producers ' Co-operation is to be found in factories owned and ultimately controlled not by the men and women working in them , but by the members of the Consumers ' Co-operatives whose capital built and equipped the factories , and employed labour to work in them . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you 'll just have to seduce him all by yourself , ’ said Camille , reasonably . |
| 10 | He gave vent to his anger and lambasted the shipping manager for not having alerted him that Clarion Call was overdue . |
| 11 | An unemployed actor went to his agent to complain about his agent not having found him any work in months . |
| 12 | His eyes shone with mischief , and she wondered how she could ever have thought him boring . |
| 13 | Look , we 'll probably have to see him later , for a drink , OK ? ’ |
| 14 | Divine intervention might also have allowed him two straightforward chances ; a top-edged hook off Ambrose when on 22 spiralled to long-leg where Walsh got both hands to it without holding onto it , and at 66 , two balls after the end of his 125- run second wicket partnership with Wessels , he edged Patrick Patterson and Williams made a hash of a regulation catch . |
| 15 | Though she clearly had made him angry , Constance knew that her decision had been right . |
| 16 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 17 | If he was right , then Lorton 's ingenuity might well have taken him one step further . |
| 18 | His features were regular , rather ordinary , though some might well have thought him handsome . |
| 19 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 20 | That could n't have done him any good . ’ |
| 21 | Anyway , his years there ca n't have done him any good . ’ |
| 22 | Er could n't have done him any harm . |
| 23 | I would n't have minded him blind . |
| 24 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 25 | Should n't have give him that tin , that 's why dogs are that 's why you 're instructed to feed a dog once a day or whatever it is . |
| 26 | I even had to loan him some more to get out of Nicaragua . |
| 27 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |
| 28 | The spirit of Rogal Dorn must indeed have granted him supraphysical strength to wrestle with such weight as well as with his own . |
| 29 | Eventually , most of his estates in Northumberland were entailed upon the Percy family , who may indeed have advanced him some of the money he needed in 1332 . |
| 30 | The thought of being there had made him fearful then . |