Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 2 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 3 | They 'd kept him awake for many an hour prior to an op . |
| 4 | They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same . |
| 5 | Unless they 'd taken him captive . |
| 6 | They 've made him redundant . |
| 7 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
| 8 | He recalled the businessman again , saw his face , framed in the night-light outside the small house they had kept him captive in . |
| 9 | Walter Smith told his players before they left the dressing room at Celtic Park that he appreciated they had given him all they could since the start of that run in August . |
| 10 | They had given him one written statement . |
| 11 | They had hit him several times for lying . |
| 12 | He and Matey had employed servants before , even quite attractive ones , and he had felt no temptation at all , they had left him cold , but McAllister … |
| 13 | They had found him quicker than he 'd anticipated , sniffing him out through the darkened streets . |
| 14 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |