Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I only ask because Mr Hamlyn has made them look remarkably similar — the main difference is that Ms Rendell has a splendid pair of naked buttocks perched on her head where her hair should be .
2 Advice from England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy has helped me survive my first crisis as a manager .
3 Richard 's opening soliloquy ( which is also the opening text of the entire play ) must count as the clearest ‘ policy ’ statement of the tragedy principle in representation : Before this , Richard has let us know that he is not happy with the non-warring state of affairs and is set to provide destruction .
4 Ewan had seen you leap on Hector , and struck out at you — I tried to hold back his blow ! ’
5 ‘ Being with England has made me realise what I have missed ’
6 But Maggie had heard him draw notes out of it which rent the air with their sadness , and through his music she 'd seen a side of him he 'd kept hidden from the world .
7 Eva could be snobby , that was obvious , but if I saw something , or heard a piece of music , or visited a place , I would n't be content until Eva had made me see it in a certain way .
8 Tallis had seen nothing like them in all her life , their hides so thick , their fur patterned in blacks and browns and whites , infested with parasites .
9 Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct .
10 It was the following day , a Tuesday ; Ben Hesketh had arrived again , this time with a big estate car , and Ruth had helped him load the crates into the back .
11 he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more
12 Hayling had let them know that the move would complicate his personal life .
13 It was the first time Pumfrey had heard anyone use the word ‘ misgives ’ .
14 " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to .
15 What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years .
16 Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique .
17 When Quinn put down the phone , it was the first time Sam had seen him appear visibly shaken .
18 Nicola had made me go and see if he was okay and I said yes he was , because I 'd seen his eye move and I left him there .
19 Liz has let you get on with it .
20 ‘ As you all know , ’ she said , ‘ ever since the Pack was formed we 've held our meetings in this fine old barn , which Farmer Maynard has let us have for our own use .
21 Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 .
22 She had promised to take me sailing , and Paula had let her borrow the boat for a few hours , as she had often done before .
23 Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him
24 Frank Griffith has made them wonder if the letters really exist .
25 Visits to sports grounds in London and Birmingham had made me realize just how many second generation black kids were following the likes of Hope and Cunningham and channelling their efforts into sport .
26 And , as Dalgliesh had heard him argue , for all their demands for equality of status and opportunity , putting them in the front line behind the riot shields , taking the petrol bombs , the hurled stones and now the bullets , only made the job of their male colleagues even more onerous .
27 In the end , Coleman had to let it pass , although he contrived not to pay for the footage , and duly noted the DEA 's systematic corruption of the media in one of his back-channel reports to Donleavy .
28 Because Florian Jones had made him believe that she was innocent of all that he had accused her of .
29 Hindley has made him become a poor , dull farm worker .
30 Was that why Benjamin had let me go ?
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