Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [vb pp] him [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Stewart is still battling to fully shake off hamstring trouble which has plagued him all season . |
2 | Parents and doctors want to switch off the system which has kept him alive since the 1989 , but fear the legal implications . |
3 | He can not see why cash which has earned him monthly interest running into five figures should be squandered for the sake of a perceived way of life that is now beset by escalating economic and political pressure . |
4 | A feeling of malaise which had beset him earlier , and which he had blamed on the news from Oxford , persisted . |
5 | Eliot 's renunciation of primitivism and sexuality recalls this phrasing while pulling away from the world which had fascinated him earlier ; he sees from the fertile ‘ slotted window bellied like the fig 's fruit ’ how |
6 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
7 | If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant . |
8 | Horbury was on drugs for high-blood pressure which had made him impotent and claims his wife admitted adultery , Mr Rees said . |
9 | The Hatchet had not lost those qualities which had made him one of the most respected , and feared , members of the underworld . |
10 | He wondered how he had found sufficient courage to ask her to the Edwardian Ball , and then remembered that it was her air of calm dignity which had made him anxious to take her to impress his parents . |
11 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
12 | His war wound which had pained him earlier was now turning to agony . |
13 | Bush made his statement after receiving a CIA report in mid-February , which had informed him that Israeli claims that under 1 per cent of Soviet immigrants were being settled in the " occupied territories " was only partly true , because a further 10 per cent were being placed in settlements in East Jerusalem . |
14 | On Forgive 'N Forget 's most recent outing he had run fourth behind Combs Ditch at Haydock Park , and that horse was also in the Gold Cup field , third favourite after a highly successful season which had brought him three good prizes and a neck defeat by Wayward Lad in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park . |
15 | But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight . |
16 | Mandarin was eleven but showed no signs of losing the powers which had brought him numerous victories , including two in the King George VI Chase . |
17 | ( Rebel sources reported that he had fled to the southern port of Kismayu , with the aim of entering Kenya , which had promised him safe conduct . |
18 | There was a desultory air to the whole performance , and I knew that he was conscious of his mediocre first round , which had put him some way down the field . |
19 | Neil was ready to knock Blaine down , had come out of the trance which had held him silent under Havvie 's insults to the girl he loved — but he saw Sally-Anne 's face , and read there only guilt , not the shame which gripped her . |
20 | Whereas for the other his faulty picture may go back to badly tangled family relationships which have left him unable to see any authority as good or loving . |