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

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1 The sport has given him all this , and could take him from it in an instant .
2 Now he has decamped to Hollywood , where his blandly commercial approach and hit track record has won him this prestigious assignment , a high-concept , low-intelligence star vehicle .
3 It has taken him all these years to understand the implications .
4 Now an American court has awarded him that ludicrous sum against the International Amateur Athletic Federation .
5 It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill .
6 His pride could not have permitted him this simple insight .
7 I 've given him some some things to play he 's going to play with his pennies and make patterns and work out his tables .
8 Being one of the few local boys who had gone to grammar school had given him that extra confidence early in life .
9 None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present .
10 She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things .
11 He had despised her thoroughly ever since she had given him some dire warnings about the state of his aura , and he felt she would be perfect for this review .
12 Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom .
13 ‘ Now that you 've got him all excited , it 'll be hours before he can get off to sleep . ’
14 He wondered why she had told him all this .
15 So Maureen had known him all that time .
16 His lovely Janine had brought him this low , had brought Michael Ryan into his home .
17 From his visit to the Burgers , Wycliffe had learned something about art , more about the art trade , and a good deal about Edwin Garland , but he wondered whether it had brought him any closer to establishing a motive for the murder of Francis .
18 You know and immediately can you see , you 've asked him all these questions you can see what a pain in the neck you are to all the people you 've asked these questions of .
19 Sylvie had left him these two .
20 In fact he had barred him some three weeks previously in mid-March .
21 Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning .
22 I have given him some heavy sarcasm about it . ’
23 His paper have given him another six weeks ' leave-of-absence , so he decided to see France and , I believe , Spain . ’
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