Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion . |
| 2 | In The Wrench he creates the rigger Faussone , the practical man whose cranes girdle the world and who keeps returning , a little heavy-footed , to the house in Turin where two old aunts fuss over his welfare : Faussone was spoken of as ‘ my alter ego ’ , and the book has to struggle to accommodate him as a second person , available for interview by Levi . |
| 3 | Local MP , Barry Legge has written to say he sympathises with the villagers , but insists it 's a matter for the planners . |
| 4 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |
| 5 | In the forthright style that has helped to earn him his reputation , he said that politicians are sick people , that they have a profound characters fault , and that their main objective is to keep their jobs ( does the later at least not also apply to economists , one might wonder ? ) . |
| 6 | All this has helped to establish him as one of Britain 's most celebrated comic talents , as well as a somewhat unlikely sex symbol . |
| 7 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |
| 8 | And what 's more , Uncle Pumblechook , realizing that this boy 's fortune may be made by going to Miss Havisham 's , has offered to take him into town tonight in his carriage , and let him sleep in his own house , and deliver him tomorrow to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 9 | The brother of a man jailed for seven years in Baghdad has offered to keep him company , or even change places . |
| 10 | She comes back and tells the others her dad has found a nice man who has agreed to fly him and Paul and John to Florida in his plane . |
| 11 | ‘ I think the Dean 's dog has called to fetch him home . ’ |
| 12 | Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's new wife , horsewoman Madeline Gurdon , has tried to smarten him up . |
| 13 | The Tutor remains a sympathetic character fur Vera , s sorrow at his departure is echoed by Kolia , Natalia 's son , when he too realises he is losing the only person who has tried to make him happy . |
| 14 | Mike Gatting has tried to help him , sometimes by being brutal . |
| 15 | True , the Government has continued to afford him protection , an expensive commitment for which he helps pay . |
| 16 | The packaging of imported products has continued to fascinate him , for intrinsic qualities — — the names , the colours and the designs — but also no doubt because of the way products from far away have been integrated into the domestic Mexican environment . |
| 17 | This is enhanced when after all she has done to help her husband become king , she has to ask to see him . |
| 18 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 19 | John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today . |
| 20 | The first essential for a disciple is that he ( or she ) has met with the Lord and has chosen to follow Him . |
| 21 | She 'd intended to tell him she wanted to open the safety-deposit box , but it occurred to her that he might put obstacles in her way . |
| 22 | Culley wondered why she 'd decided to let him off the hook . |
| 23 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 24 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 25 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 26 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 27 | Getting on to the remains of the top of the pod had been relatively straightforward , although Daak had tried to insist on being the last one out and she 'd had to threaten him with troopers ' oaths and a blaster to convince him that gallantry was inappropriate . |
| 28 | ‘ She 'd agreed to meet him , though . ’ |
| 29 | She 'd longed to hear him whisper that he loved her — but he had n't . |
| 30 | It was almost as if he 'd reached out to clasp her hand in his plea for help , and she knew she 'd wanted to give him a lift . |