Example sentences of "it have [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has made him a millionaire but 32-year-old Chris would sell it all tomorrow if he could find a buyer . |
| 2 | He was paid £1,600 for his part in producing a football video nasty and it has cost him a record £20,000 fine . |
| 3 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |
| 4 | Mentally it has done him a lot of damage . ’ |
| 5 | This scientific enthusiasm was invaluable during his three years as President of the Royal Geographical Society and it has earned him a place on the National Environmental Research Council . |
| 6 | He had headaches , toothache , his anxiety about the coming week and how he would cope with it had given him a fever . |
| 7 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 8 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 9 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 10 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 11 | He swallowed ; it had cost him an effort to speak in such a way to his mother . |
| 12 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 13 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
| 14 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 15 | Ken Stevens loved both his girls and Rachel knew it had taken him a long time to come to terms with Jennifer 's illness ; she doubted he would ever forgive David Markham for walking out on her at such a crucial time . |
| 16 | First he reminded us that it had taken him no time at all to find the Ardakkean thief — an off-world technician working in one of the phetam refining plants . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's given him a slightly orangey colour . |
| 18 | But this streak of obsessionality , deriving from his loss-all those years ago , not only haunts him , it 's made him a remarkably untrusting person even towards his own children . |
| 19 | ‘ The Doctor just was n't at his best when St Jovite murdered him in Ireland and it 's taken him a while to get over that . |