Example sentences of "[that] have [vb pp] him [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was that kind of care that had kept him alive so long .
2 But that was before doctors switched off the ventilator that had kept him alive ever since he ran in terror from one IRA bomb into the full force of another .
3 He drained it at a draught and threw it back , the dark mood that had kept him silent from Ivrigar falling away .
4 It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own .
5 In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain .
6 It was n't congenital stupidity that had made him susceptible to human jurisdiction , it was anguish .
7 Dr Tariq did not vouchsafe to the Colonel the news that had reached him that morning , that a Frenchman , home on leave , had sent by letter his resignation .
8 It was his profession that had brought him that shaft of insight , and he felt mildly safer because of it .
9 The road accident that had left him lame had also worn him down .
10 He had woken from his brief sleep , emerging out of nightmares that had left him drained and sickened .
11 For the predictions that have made him famous , Britain 's top amateur weather-watcher would rather rely on a few observations of his own …
12 Cos then it 's something that 's done him good and it 's learnt him to talk cos he 's had Thomas erm
13 It 's exhaustion that 's made him ill . ’
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