Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her baby 's father was quite a bit older than she , twenty-six , and wanted her to have the baby because he thought that having mumps had made him sterile . |
| 2 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 3 | Both Albert Cavalcanti , the onetime head of the GPO Film Unit whose Brazilian origins had made him unacceptable as a civil servant , and Watt joined the tight group of filmmakers Balcon had gathered round him at Ealing . |
| 4 | His cheeks were sunken and the onset of years had given him heavy jowls . |
| 5 | His poems have brought him national acknowledgement and well-earned distinction . |
| 6 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 7 | Yet when I placed the first hot pad on to the boy 's twisted left leg he seemed not to feel any pain ; I supposed the pain of the spasms had made him impervious to a lesser pain . |
| 8 | Eleanor 's stories had made him jealous ; his wife 's effusions angered him . |
| 9 | The echoing sounds of Mac 's voice coming from those walls in his dreams had shaken him awake , clutching at the sheets , sweat oozing from every pore . |
| 10 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 11 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 12 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 13 | His intense and unpredictable moods have earned him many enemies throughout the Empire . |
| 14 | You know I 've talked about Thomson 's passing from midfield but you 've always got to be have targets to hit you see if you 're a passing player and certainly the Leicester players have given him that . |
| 15 | The prosecution have proved the killing of Dr Howe the doctors have certified him unfit , and an order has been made for his detention in hospital , he 'll be assessed by doctors and when he 's fit to resume he 'll return to trial . |
| 16 | A club spokesman said : ‘ The doctors have given him another scan and he was taken off the life-support machine . ’ |
| 17 | One man , Hamad Hasan al-Harash , had a notebook in which he wrote down important events as he came across them : some were reports of what very old men had told him thirty or forty years ago ; others were things he had read ; others still were things which had happened to him . |
| 18 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 19 | He tried to hide the crease of worry on his features , but when she asked him whether the debtors had given him extra time he frowned and shook his head . |
| 20 | ‘ I tell you , media and even historians have made him bigger than life , but if you remove a person from accessibility , then you ca n't emulate them . |
| 21 | A white , middle-class widow sets out for the hinterland in search of her maid 's son ; but the police have found him first . |
| 22 | Spending his five shillings had given him great satisfaction , particularly as none of it had been wasted . |
| 23 | His ecclesiastical superiors had deemed him unfit to be a priest . |
| 24 | Precautions had kept him alive . |
| 25 | Most notably it swept southern Africa , though he did talk about a visit to Russia where his hosts had told him Labour would be good partners in disarmament . |
| 26 | At one point he corrected her too easily made assumption and then pointed out to the therapist that he had shown his feelings : his voice had risen because her remarks had made him angry . |
| 27 | Where a plaintiff 's injuries have rendered him incapable of managing his affairs , Court of Protection fees are recoverable as an expense caused by the injuries ( see Kemp & Kemp , Vol 1 , para 5/008/11 ) . |
| 28 | If you are running this adventure ( Chapter 4 ) , Drachenfels wo n't be in his catafalque , of course , unless the adventurers have met him earlier and killed him within the Castle . |
| 29 | Additionally , he 's been working with Left Hand Right Hand , who 've just toured the States , while his other musical activities have seen him involved with British Racing Green and Danielle Dax , with whom he plays bass from time to time . |