Example sentences of "him have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't have occurred to you to leave Adam in peace and let him have a well-deserved weekend off , would it ? |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Clay County wrenched the muscles in his quarters when dropping his hind legs in the water jump at Nottingham , so we decided to give the Cheltenham Festival a miss and let him have a long break . |
| 3 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 4 | Shildon said : ‘ If MacQuillan had lived , Eliot could have used the information to persuade people to change their minds about letting him have a free hand with the Post . |
| 5 | I 'd like to see him have a few failures and see how he handles that . ’ |