Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] he have " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one of Ralph 's more painful foolishnesses , she had once persuaded a lover to telephone Grunte pretending he had a message from Downing Street . |
| 2 | Without declaring for or against the coup , Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces . |
| 3 | Nah Wilko offloaded him cause Rocky knew which way to put his cashcard in the hole-int-wall implying he had a brain and there fore could think for himself — something Wilko do n't encourage . |
| 4 | With less than twenty minutes of his shift remaining he had already decided on the clothes he would be wearing for the special occasion . |
| 5 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 6 | Mr Gray read from the peer 's service record showing he had left Austria on 22 May , before some of the crucial decisions about the repatriations were taken . |
| 7 | Despite the pleasure it gave Minton to walk into a friend 's house and find his own wallpaper , purchased without his friend knowing he had designed it , he did not take his interest in this area much further . |
| 8 | And then , in Camus , who made the most immense journey from his origins ( his mother was illiterate ; a neighbour read her the telex saying he 'd won the Nobel Prize ) , I found someone who stated , in the most affirmative and human terms , the ways in which he remained dependent on them . |
| 9 | He has me fetch the plastic bucket from under the sink , then returns to the caravan with the bigger bits in the bucket saying he has some letters to write . |
| 10 | He encoded a message to Control saying he had decided to abandon the DEA assignment and would await clearance for departure . |
| 11 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 12 | The first two fingers closed together as if he was a little kid pretending he had a gun . |
| 13 | He smuggled out a message saying he 'd discovered who in London had betrayed him and that he was going underground to escape . |
| 14 | I got a DOPACS report saying he 'd worked thirteen shifts out of fourteen . |
| 15 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 16 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 17 | DUP councillor Sammy Wilson said that for the second year running he had been swamped with complaints from local people who feel they are living in ‘ eyesores ’ . |
| 18 | One , Héctor Neyra , had fled the country claiming he had been threatened by the right-wing death squad Commando Rodrigo Franco ; the other , Daniel Figueroa , was working in Chile . |
| 19 | IT WAS , said Monty Python member Terry Jones yesterday of the death of his colleague Graham Chapman the worst case of party pooping he have ever come across . |
| 20 | Mr Dewar said he abhorred the thought of civil disobedience adding he had been assured by Scotland United members that this was not part of their strategy . |
| 21 | He glanced down the slope wishing he had brought boots ; his shoes were already letting in mud . |
| 22 | The contents of Steinitz 's attics which the dealer claimed he had never had time to inspect comprising all manner of junk and broken pieces of furniture , occupied the weekend of 23–24 May and visibly left Tajan wishing he had never bothered . |
| 23 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 24 | While I was out , Reg Pybus dropped in a note saying he had been invited to Wrexham with a view to joining them as coach . |
| 25 | The US manager , who knew no Spanish , had been taken hostage and had phoned the embassy claiming he had been captured by Communists . |
| 26 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |