Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] him [art] " 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 | His antiquarian temperament has made him a greater snapper-up of unconsidered trifles of archaeology , architecture and literature . |
| 3 | Stephen 's quick thinking has earned him a bravery award in the Care in Crisis competition run by the Red Cross , and the respect of his mother . |
| 4 | Those long years in junior command had given him an intimacy with the poilu denied to most of the other French chiefs , and because of his low rank in 1914 he knew — unlike Haig and Joffre — very well what wounded men looked like . |
| 5 | Similarly , a former CIA agent had given him a detailed , off-the-record account of the agency 's involvement with arms and narcotics trafficking in the Middle East . |
| 6 | His years in the ring had left him the legacy of being quick on his feet , and he caught Larsen some twenty yards short of the door . |
| 7 | For a final moment the inflamed bruise on his left calf where the scorpion had stung him a week before seemed to blaze with new agonizing fire . |
| 8 | His clemency had earned him the regard of the West and would , surely , last until Twelfth Night . |
| 9 | The two hundred and forty-seven pounds of weight have made him a bit short of breath . |
| 10 | The act has made him the star of the show . |
| 11 | Bert 's public-spirited efforts have n't gone unnoticed either — his fastidiousness has won him a thank-you scroll from the Keep Britain Tidy group . |
| 12 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 13 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 14 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 15 | Even a bare second had shown him the gauntness of her face , its pallor throwing the make-up into a strange relief , like those simulated three-dimensional photographs . |
| 16 | While crossing the grassy plain , the intoxicating heat of the sun had made him a little light-headed , and intense feelings of tenderness for the unknown Moi girl had begun to sweep through him . |
| 17 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 18 | The Home Guard had drawn him a map of how to get to Maryhill , and he was quite happy now . |
| 19 | He 'd known he would n't be putting on the act as soon as the boy had handed him the carrier . |
| 20 | As they skirted the smooth lawns on the way back to the car park Merrill dropped behind to walk with Sam who was now complacently asserting that all this exercise had given him an appetite for dinner . |
| 21 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 22 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 23 | People in the village have wished him every success in his new position . |
| 24 | He failed to obtain a Card at Montpelier last year finishing 66th , but his outstanding amateur record has earned him a dozen or so sponsor 's invites . |
| 25 | I said there was no need to have got him a plate . |
| 26 | Someone at the Chiswick meeting had asked him a question after his speech . |
| 27 | His own estates lay mainly in Northamptonshire , but his marriage to the Scales heiress had brought him a group of manors in East Anglia , a regional connection maintained by his second marriage , to Mary Fitzlewis . |
| 28 | His own estates lay mainly in Northamptonshire , but his marriage to the Scales heiress had brought him a group of manors in East Anglia , a regional connection maintained by his second marriage , to Mary Fitzlewis . |
| 29 | Lieutenant Stapleton had managed to recognize Louise without too much trouble , though her appearance had given him a bit of a surprise . |
| 30 | The larger-than-life character is becoming well-known on the streets of Iasi youngsters in the town have dubbed him The Black Horse and even taken to copying his distinctive hairstyle : slicked back with a pony-tail . |