Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 5 | But Dr Jones 's involvement with industry has led him into difficulties — which lend a critical edge to the parable . |
| 6 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 7 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 8 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 13 | Nellie had put him to bed thinking it was a cold , then hearing of the scarlet fever in Newry through Tommy Drennan , she sent for Dr Nolan at once . |
| 14 | Tammuz Malamute abused the body Ewan had bequeathed him for years , telling himself he 'd buried the past , until the day he woke up and a voice inside reminded him that Ari Famber was fourteen years old . |
| 15 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 16 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 17 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |
| 18 | When the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East went on television that night to clean up the mess that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had put him into again , he did not look pleased about it . |
| 19 | His killer , a 16-year-old hired assassin who was wounded and captured , later claimed that a stranger had provided him with a submachine gun and directed him to kill the UP leader . |
| 20 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 21 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 22 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 23 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 24 | An ambulance had rushed him to hospital , but attempts to save him had failed . |
| 25 | ‘ What 's in here ? ’ said Lee , opening the door of the room that Mrs Wright had taken him into , to see the birds ' eggs . |
| 26 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 27 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |
| 28 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 29 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 30 | Or perhaps it was like one of those big animals Grimma had showed him in a book once . |