Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] he have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Punch wishes to assure you that he has had many a good belly laugh from the magazine which bore his name for so many years .
2 He followed them home with something of the elation of a successful spy , and when he eagerly observed Clare 's final self-abandonment in the porch it seemed to him that he had obtained some immensely pleasurable secret .
3 Afterwards Chudnovsky went to Semenov and , apparently , in the course of their conversation he notified him that he had received some money from Costakis .
4 Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment .
5 The results were favourable and there began a series of trials which ‘ convinced him that he had made some valuable discoveries ’ .
6 In those twenty minutes , Luke had told him that he had found part-time employment at the Old Rectory , Anna had told him that his mother had found employment at a Windsor gift shop , and his mother-in-law , Laura , had telephoned to say she had landed three lines in a television commercial for an Irish stout , dressed as a pearly queen .
7 It seemed to him that he had intercepted some secret communication between them .
8 The water running down his body reminded him that he had cried last night .
9 They told us that he had insulted most of their friends , and that he dearly loved a political argument .
10 All of that placed him very safely above London 's poor manual labourers — but it should not persuade either him or us that he had achieved social parity with the genteel and leisured classes .
11 To our interjection that on the evidence from Poland and other European countries under Russian domination , applied Marxism had neither created the wealth nor allowed the freedom to enable the purpose , as it is perceived in the democratic west , of the State to be realised — that is , to provide the circumstances in which the individual may most fully live a life of his or her own and so fulfill his or her potential for awareness and creativity , he would reply that that perception was mistaken ; and go on to remind us that he had attached supreme importance to the State .
12 John told us that he had devoted many hours the previous year in observation of the golden eagles of Arran , recording their every move .
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