Example sentences of "have [vb pp] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 2 | In America , where they have a fondness for creating lists of the greatest ever people , his Plight of English has placed him among the very top writers on the English language . |
| 3 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 4 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 5 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 6 | But while many small traders blame the lenders for many of their difficulties Mr Miller says the Royal Bank of Scotland has helped him through the downturn by being flexible . |
| 7 | The poll tax has been an outstanding success for the right hon. Member for Wirral , West ( Mr. Hunt ) — it has got him into the Cabinet . |
| 8 | But Mrs Thatcher has told him in the Commons the Government 's not to blame : |
| 9 | His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party . |
| 10 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 11 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |
| 12 | But his choice of verse form has condemned him to the weakness which mars all attempts to match the Horatian strophe with the English quatrain — the weakness of expansion . |
| 13 | No other wave since has deposited him in the river . |
| 14 | So a new ball Lewis This his third chance Stone has found him in the end . |
| 15 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 16 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 17 | Tanaka 's latest works are the culmination of a process that has brought him from the flat and serial minimalism of lines of white cement blocks to such imposing works as ‘ Scenery comes vertical ’ , a bronze obelisk placed in front of a painting depicting the course of the Nile . |
| 18 | Stephen Thomas says the ordeal has driven him to the brink of suicide . |
| 19 | When de Man subjects the metaphor of the fountain to " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , he apparently loses sight of the way that his own conception of metaphor as " intratextual complementarity " of inside and outside has led him towards the aporia . |
| 20 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 21 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 22 | Ben … is a brilliant merchant banker , whose childhood in occupied Europe has scarred him with the legacy of an ‘ existential tardiness ’ ; he recoils from everything in life that demands a heady recklessness , and is doomed to live ‘ without hope in desire ’ . ’ |
| 23 | But skipper Richard Gough is out with a groin injury which has troubled him since the Skol Cup final . |
| 24 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 25 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 26 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 27 | Now the Supreme Court has put him on the spot . |
| 28 | Since joining BP as a petroleum engineer in 1974 , his career has kept him on the move . |
| 29 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 30 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |