Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst initially not as financially rewarding , the change in direction has brought him increasing recognition . |
| 2 | But he says the case has cost him more than that . |
| 3 | And now the stroke has affected him that way . |
| 4 | The ombudsman shall ( in accordance with and subject to the following clauses of this scheme ) investigate any complaint received by him from an individual if : — ( a ) the complaint relates to action taken in the United Kingdom by a building society or a body associated with it ; ( b ) at the time that the complaint is received by the ombudsman , the building society or ( as the case may be ) associated body is a participant in the scheme ; ( c ) the action was taken in relation to one of the activities specified in clause 17 ; ( d ) the grounds of the complaint are included in the grounds specified in clause 18 ; and ( e ) the complainant alleges that the action has caused him pecuniary loss , expense or inconvenience . ’ |
| 5 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
| 6 | All his life he had been afraid to ask about his back , and his terrible fear had made him ill . |
| 7 | If he said the punter had paid him fifty quid , Joe knew that was what had been paid . |
| 8 | He was taller than Huy , and labour had made him sinewy ; but he was older , and his guard had dropped . |
| 9 | The sport has given him all this , and could take him from it in an instant . |
| 10 | He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern . |
| 11 | Hugh breathed heavily like a man who was dreaming and opened his eyes with a start as though his dream had frightened him awake . |
| 12 | Until now he had never had to court the approval of the political elite , because his monopoly of legitimacy had made him irreplaceable . |
| 13 | But not before the advance guard had stung him 10 times . |
| 14 | At present , his forthright batting has brought him 4690 Test runs , at the creditable average of 30.26 , with seven centuries . |
| 15 | Now he has decamped to Hollywood , where his blandly commercial approach and hit track record has won him this prestigious assignment , a high-concept , low-intelligence star vehicle . |
| 16 | The abortive kidnapping had left him drained — too exhausted even to contemplate the consequences of his failure . |
| 17 | Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical . |
| 18 | She crashed the engine into reverse gear and felt a wave of relief because the shock of her revelation had kept him inert for too long — he would n't catch her . |
| 19 | His ugliness set him apart ; his ugliness had made him vain . |
| 20 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 21 | He had never used the cane before , only the threat of it , but all three children were well aware that Kim 's flagrant disobedience earlier that evening had caused him acute public embarrassment . |
| 22 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 23 | Experts remain divided on the question of Dr Proctor 's state of mind during the period when he is confirmed to have been responsible for seven hundred and fifty-three homicides , but the Supreme Court has ruled him insane and irresponsible . |
| 24 | The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay . |
| 25 | Now an American court has awarded him that ludicrous sum against the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't kill him , but I 'm probably the last person to have seen him alive . |
| 27 | That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion . |
| 28 | The last minute had left him naked in a desert of infinite horror . |
| 29 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 30 | This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying : neither fame nor literary achievement had brought him any contentment , and in the end it was human love , the love that he had dismissed in his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men , that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation . |