Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 2 | Then he discovers the bar owner doubles up as the town sheriff and that gunman Lyle has just given him a lift . |
| 3 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 4 | His name has already made him the butt of many jokes . |
| 5 | But his hyperactive personality has also made him an easy subject for parody . |
| 6 | He has some obsession she has n't told him the whole truth . ’ |
| 7 | His defiance of Uncle Sam has even earned him a grudging respect . |
| 8 | he has two sons and two daughters , one of whom has recently made him a grandad and , although he confesses to still having the odd game of cricket , his main pastime nowadays is deep-sea fishing . |
| 9 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 10 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 11 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 12 | Yeah , well tell him you 'll put him in his diary , I I would have thought if you 'd just sent him the notes to each meeting he would come if he would , if he could , and if he ca n't , he ca n't . |
| 13 | Yes , but I 've , I 've only given him a lump figure you see . |
| 14 | I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’ |
| 15 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 16 | I thought it was very unfortunate that Catherine had only given him a daughter , not a son . |
| 17 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 18 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 19 | Pope Gregory VIII ( the former chancellor , Albert de Morra , who had contacts with France ) , who enjoyed only a ten-week pontificate , had already made him a subdeacon between October and December 1187 . |
| 20 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 21 | I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview . |
| 22 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 23 | One had already borne him a son ; one would do so soon . |
| 24 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 25 | Peters 's independent approach to economic policy — particularly his reservations concerning the social consequences of economic deregulation — had already earned him a shadow Cabinet demotion in 1989 . |
| 26 | St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order ! |
| 27 | If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future . |
| 28 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 29 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 30 | She had not imagined him a sportsman . |