Example sentences of "it have [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 2 | ‘ It has hurt him more than anything else since his release . |
| 3 | It has taken him all these years to understand the implications . |
| 4 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 5 | He had n't been hurt by it , probably not even insulted , but it had made him angry . |
| 6 | For a moment it had made him inclined to doubt the authenticity of the whole thing . |
| 7 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 8 | It had stopped him dead , for a moment . |
| 9 | It had cost him all his money , but Conradin did not mind . |
| 10 | It had cost him twenty-five shillings , but worth it because of not being able to keep it out of the library long . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 13 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 14 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 15 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 16 | Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained . |
| 17 | It had taken him half an hour to get his hands and nails clean , using white spirit and a nailbrush as well as soap and water . |
| 18 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
| 19 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 20 | It had left him alone to think about the problems he had to face and how he would overcome them . |
| 21 | It had promised him 1000 florins a year in a year 's time . |
| 22 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 23 | Caballeros had heard of Kyle 's 9 at the 14th and it had set him alight . |
| 24 | He says it 's cost him dear . |
| 25 | It 's cost him twenty thousand pounds . |
| 26 | He says it 's taught him important lessons . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever the rights and wrongs of that matter , Mr Evans has had a hard , lonely fight and it 's made him bitter against those who have n't . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's had a cold , hard life and it 's made him cold and hard , ’ Hepzibah said . |
| 29 | so anyway he 's he 's engaged and it 's taken him two years to get engaged so it 's gon na take another couple of years to get married . |
| 30 | But if it 's taken him 28 years to rediscover the show , the character 's never left him : ‘ All that Cockney toughness is just a cover for the inability to love , ’ he says of Littlechap , but it could as easily apply to him ( 'I 'm desperately childish . |