Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] him [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
2 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
3 | These were the only wickets Martin took in the match , but his allround contributions would probably have earned him the Man of the Match award had such been on offer in those days . |
4 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
5 | She sometimes had given him the spare front door key but he denied having had the key on the day of her death . |
6 | Van was the man to cultivate , said Morton — he had a finger in every secret service pie — and Van indeed had offered him a certain irascible encouragement . |
7 | In addition , the war years had turned de Gaulle himself into a national leader and given him a unique symbolic identity , and yet had left him an inexperienced politician without an organized or cohesive following . |
8 | His pre-Civil War sympathies for the national-syndicalist JONS and his membership of Falange from 1936 onwards had made him a natural choice for the post of ambassador to Vichy . |
9 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |