Example sentences of "it have [verb] him [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Steve Royle says they used the tank for teaching people to row and it has enabled him to see lots of students and they can now coach everybody the right technique .
2 Iain feels the effects of the alcohol drunk with the meal but it has made him feel good , giving him a sense — true or not — that he can cope , that he can deal with the way his own mind and from there be able to deal with other people 's .
3 It had taught him to love his own beauty .
4 And it had made him feel big in a way that had nothing to do with macho trappings .
5 Perhaps on a hundredth of those thousand times , seeing her there , it had moved him to think how in so many towns like Odborough men were looking up at her as they shut shops or walked home from mills and mines .
6 He had found a job as watchman at the council depot but it had caused him to become morose and ailing .
7 It had shocked him to discover , while a student , that at least half the men in his year had had no love or emotional experience at all .
8 What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion .
9 Jacob , trim in his dinner-jacket , his dark eyes sparkling darker against the greying of his thick hair ; Leo , blond , relaxed , despite the effort it had cost him to put on a suit for the occasion .
10 Nobody but himself knew what it had cost him to start riding with Nutty as a teacher , and to get to his present standard on the crazy little mare when he had been terrified out of his wits at the things she did .
11 He would n't say how much money it had cost him to get married , but did say the money he would have made from Jamie 's maiden win would have helped in a big way .
12 By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story .
13 ‘ No telephone calls accepted for residents — ’ I wondered how long it had taken him to break the habit of saying ‘ inmates ’ — ‘ during luncheon . ’
14 John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it .
15 He had rather enjoyed it and it had helped him to keep his mind off what might be happening to Snodgrass and to Floy and Fenella .
16 is fine swinging the ball with the tide erm , when Tufnell 's bowling , just an alteration in the field , Mike was deep forward square leg , if , if , that 's the right place he was neither square legged or mid wicket and it 's prompted him to move straighter , but he 's just a natural swing for the left-hander to hit with the tide in that mid wicket area .
17 Cos then it 's something that 's done him good and it 's learnt him to talk cos he 's had Thomas erm
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