Example sentences of "have [vb pp] him [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart is still battling to fully shake off hamstring trouble which has plagued him all season . |
| 2 | David Lodge , whose experience as novelist , critic , and professor of English has given him many insights into the situation I am describing , provides in his recent novel Nice Work , a neat instance of the gap between students and teacher . |
| 3 | The sport has given him all this , and could take him from it in an instant . |
| 4 | Odd-Knut has given him some eggs that turn out to be frozen . |
| 5 | England manager Graham Taylor has given him this Saturday off to attend the wedding of his sister Anne-Marie . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 8 | She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation . |
| 9 | ‘ As time has gone on , the whole thing has got him more and more down , so this is a great relief and a huge weight off his shoulders . |
| 10 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 11 | And now the stroke has affected him that way . |
| 12 | He has had a hand in most of the major developments on site , but says B205 — Magnox reprocessing — has brought him most satisfaction . |
| 13 | But his job as presenter of BBC-1 's Film ‘ 92 — despite the image of the smooth- tongued critic who does n't pull his punches — has brought him some decidedly UN-cool moments off-screen . |
| 14 | ‘ It has hurt him more than anything else since his release . |
| 15 | But he says the case has cost him more than that . |
| 16 | It has taken him all these years to understand the implications . |
| 17 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 18 | Now an American court has awarded him that ludicrous sum against the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |
| 19 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 22 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 23 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 24 | They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same . |
| 25 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 26 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 27 | She leaned on Craig 's shoulder as if she 'd known him all her life . |
| 28 | I 'd known him all my life . |
| 29 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 30 | She 'd tossed him some bait , and he 'd swallowed the rod . |