Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Micky Stewart has since kept him involved in international get togethers and is clearly an admirer . |
| 2 | A nurse has secretly slipped him some strips of paper in his hands . |
| 3 | It is this element of Charlie that has perhaps made him popular with other ( albeit less twisted ) musicians . |
| 4 | A hugely impressive return of eight goals from just 11 games is a true reflection of his amazing turnaround and it has already made him one of the buys of the season , even at that sizeable price tag . |
| 5 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 6 | Someone has probably thrown him some rubbish which he 's swallowed . ’ |
| 7 | The move to SNH has also taken him closer to his roots in Yorkshire and one of the big loves of his life — cricket . |
| 8 | The probing nature of his role , acting as an ‘ expert ’ on behalf of the government to push the reform stragglers along , has inevitably made him unpopular in some social services quarters . |
| 9 | His heartbreaking search across the world has now brought him more joy than he ever wished for — and more than 100 relatives ! |
| 10 | It has never given him any trouble , but we 've always kept an eye on it . |
| 11 | Her lips clamped together and she stared at him in horror , unable to believe she 'd really asked him such a question . |
| 12 | And for a moment there she 'd actually thought him capable of humanity . |
| 13 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 14 | He had a charismatic quality about him that had long made him one of Europe 's most eligible bachelors . |
| 15 | Occhetto 's position on the Gulf war had meanwhile lost him some support among the social democratic wing of the party , led by Giorgio Napolitano . |
| 16 | On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar . |
| 17 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 18 | About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it . |
| 19 | Jimmy Carter 's limited experience in politics had not given him adequate preparation for the demands of the White House . |
| 20 | As the conservative Senator Nunn said , in the fateful debate giving the president the powers he ( and the pro-Israeli members of Congress so fervently ) sought , Bush had not given him compelling reason for committing huge American forces to combat . |
| 21 | If they had not given him some food , he surely would have died like his mother . |
| 22 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 23 | Mrs Wilson had not thought him capable of either the guile or the imagination to make it up ; it had to be true . |
| 24 | Speaking in a House of Commons debate on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1955 , Chuter Ede declared that his time as Home Secretary had not persuaded him either way of the arguments for or against deterrence . |
| 25 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |
| 26 | ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’ |
| 27 | She had hardly seen him all day . |
| 28 | He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention . |
| 29 | I 've always found him accessible himself . |
| 30 | Carson had been before , but the place had always made him uneasy ; it was so Victorian in its assumptions . |