Example sentences of "have [vb pp] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 2 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |
| 3 | Perhaps his teacher should have given him a better word than ‘ tidgy ’ , but they both knew what they meant . |
| 4 | ‘ Could you have given him a home ? ’ |
| 5 | I could have given him a straight rejection , but I suppose that was not in my nature . |
| 6 | Presumably , the estate agent would have given him a lift somewhere . |
| 7 | ‘ Even before you pointed out his similarity to Clinton , I would have given him a reasonable rating . |
| 8 | Colin was on City 's books in the 1960s and the 77th-minute winner must have given him a kick . |
| 9 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 10 | You must have given him a pretty sleepless night through not answering the telephone . ’ |
| 11 | His early acquaintance with Pub ] ius Rutilius Rufus at the school of Panaetius must have given him a first taste of Roman optimates : later he had Pompey and Cicero among his admirers . |
| 12 | And we 'll have given him a clue for how to budget for next year as well . |
| 13 | I mean , I would have given him a good kick if I 'd do stood along side of him ! |
| 14 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 15 | His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection . |
| 16 | The Navy may have given him an air of commanding responsibility , but it was his year running the Queen 's Silver Jubilee Appeal in 1977 that finally made him his own man , and not his father 's son . |
| 17 | And though the visit could have given him an opportunity to kill his father , and then drive down the next day to discover the body , that was the one crime which every logical motive screamed against . |
| 18 | His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection . |
| 19 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 20 | The girl must have given him the elbow , Harriet decided . |
| 21 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 22 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 23 | ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival . |
| 24 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 25 | If that fool had known what it was , he 'd have given him the money ! ’ |
| 26 | Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject . |
| 27 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |
| 28 | ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’ |
| 29 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 30 | Revelations about his string of dancing partners and unsuitable friends might have earned him a reputation not unlike Fergie 's . |