Example sentences of "[conj] he have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that the encomium had little to do with these epics , but for his generous economic support of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute , where he had once worked as a lowly attendant . |
| 2 | The large statue of Chairman Mao which had dominated the quadrant outside the library , where he had once worked in his youth , suddenly ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 3 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |
| 4 | Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work . |
| 5 | Although he had already sent on Ian Wright for back injury victim Les Ferdinand , the rules of the competition still allowed for a third outfield substitution . |
| 6 | Although he had once thought about going on stage he has opted instead for directing . |
| 7 | He might also have said , as he had on countless occasions , that although he had constantly looked to the British for advice , he distrusted them acutely . |
| 8 | Although he had merely played with the idea , he had thought about murder this morning and who was to say that given propitious circumstances and the required degree of desperation , he might not indeed … murder ? |
| 9 | Mr Peter Bergg , aged 47 , is also running in his first election although he has previously stood in Sedgefield district council elections . |
| 10 | His son , also Leonard , of Crud-y-Gwynt , Mynydd Isa , near Mold , used to work at BAe as an electrician , although he has now moved to Vauxhall . |
| 11 | His immense desire to have something outside himself that he could look up to and worship expressed itself not merely in that idealistic phase that he 'd just gone through , but in his attitude towards mathematical truth . |
| 12 | He did n't sleep , despite being tired , but sat up into the small hours with an object of study that he 'd previously dismissed as fanciful nonsense : Chant 's final letter . |
| 13 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 14 | There was , however , an instinct in him when it came to Judith that he 'd never experienced with any other woman . |
| 15 | All he said in his defence was that he 'd always indulged in affairs — he needed them . |
| 16 | He 'd felt so pleased , victorious even , after leaving the depot , that he 'd quite forgotten about dropping the form . |
| 17 | Then , during the afternoon he put in a personal appearance at three of the funeral parlours that he 'd recently acquired for the company as part of his new expansion programme . |
| 18 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 19 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 20 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 21 | He confessed that he had finally come to terms with the fact that he was a homosexual , after a lifetime of denying it to himself . |
| 22 | He had completely forgotten that this was his twenty-first birthday and that he had finally come of age . |
| 23 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |
| 24 | At the same time , Coleridge 's mother in-law , Mrs Fricker , also seemed on the point of death at the house in Oxford Street , Kingsdown , that he had just found for Sara and himself on the north side of the city . |
| 25 | A FRUD commander interviewed by Le Monde of Nov. 26 in the vicinity of Obock confirmed that he had formerly trained in Ethiopia , as a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Djibouti ( FDLJ — reportedly supported by Mengistu in 1978-81 ) . |
| 26 | She knew that he had nearly finished with the Jacobites ; and as far as she was aware he had nothing else lined up . |
| 27 | This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction . |
| 28 | His critics agreed that he had sure grown with Alberta — just fatter and fatter ! |
| 29 | He stated that he had later spoken to two observers who had been close to the ridge at the time of the accident , and they had apparently noticed that the wind had , momentarily , markedly increased in strength and had appeared to swirl up the hill towards the ridge , coincidental with the time that they saw the aircraft 's wing drop and the aircraft begin to descend . |
| 30 | We can quickly dispose of the most obvious zone fossil , the king himself , in that he had already lived for 60 years before his era began and we have seen that his era is commonly regarded as lasting several years after his extinction . |