Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 2 | Olsen has belief in frank , and has also seen him play U21 successfully . |
| 3 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 4 | Looking round , he saw that the young accomplice had retrieved the knife and was pointing it at him like a gun , stammering : ‘ You 'd better let him go , d' you hear ? ’ |
| 5 | It was only towards herself that she 'd ever seen him act meanly . |
| 6 | At the US Open at Shinnecock Hills he played the best I 'd ever seen him play — probably even better than he was going to in the British Open . |
| 7 | That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke . |
| 8 | Staring up at him , her stomach in knots , she thought she 'd never seen him look so frighteningly distant and patrician … |
| 9 | I was petrified ; I 'd never seen him like this . |
| 10 | I 'd never seen him like that . |
| 11 | Unsatisfied , Morris resumed his tour of inspection , buying a raffle ticket from a woman who claimed to have once heard him speak . |
| 12 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 13 | I 've only seen him kiss your woman , that was what three and a half months ago . |
| 14 | This was not what he and Pilger wanted at all — he had better let him know what was happening . |
| 15 | And knowing how close Mickey is to him , I thought we had better let him know . ’ |
| 16 | She had not heard him approach her . |
| 17 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 18 | Lost in her condemnation of the two young men at the table , she had not heard him come in . |
| 19 | She had not seen him arrive at her home , since she had not known who he was when they had encountered each other in the garden — but she had seen him leave . |
| 20 | I had not seen him smoke before , and did not know he did . |
| 21 | She had no excuse for going into his part of the house and she had not seen him near the servants ’ quarters since that first afternoon . |
| 22 | He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her , then held both her hands and smiled down at her as I had not seen him smile since I mentioned her name that night in the subway . |
| 23 | The house sighed , wishing it had not let him start . |
| 24 | I 've just seen him go past . |
| 25 | A tutor and a year 's hard studying had just helped him catch up . |
| 26 | Watching this violation of the body 's orifices , preliminaries to the scientific brutality to follow , had always made him feel uncomfortably like a voyeur . |
| 27 | No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five . |
| 28 | ‘ Hi , ’ said the Ukrainian doorman at the Airds ' building , using the sum of the English that I had ever heard him speak , apart from ‘ God bless , ’ ‘ Cab , sir ? , ’ and ‘ You bet your ass . ’ |
| 29 | But before he could get there Mister Johnny gave a high , piercing cry , quite unlike any sound Carrie had ever heard him make before , and flung himself on Frederick , arms flailing . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , maybe a bit too enthusiastic , ’ said Glastonbury : it was the harshest thing Amiss had ever heard him say . |