Example sentences of "[adj] that he have [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me , I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness . |
| 2 | Already in 1926 ( The New Republic , 30 June ) Tate was obliged — faced with the aridity in diction and imagery of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ — to concede that ‘ It is possible that he has nothing more to say in poetry ’ . |
| 3 | His volume of business was such that he had his own warehouse , built during the 1830s , in Gloucester docks . |
| 4 | It was not so much that he had anything against people in general , more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say . |
| 5 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 6 | He was only too conscious that he had nothing really to do : his hands strayed from time to time above his freckled face to adjust his headgear . |
| 7 | And when it was obvious that he had nothing more to say , they lay down on their cots , pulled up their blankets and turned their faces to the wall . |
| 8 | The latter so impressed George II that he had it hung on the walls of his apartment , and it was being printed as late as 1821 . |
| 9 | When the sergeant had been to every man , made sure that he had his key , his baton , boots were clean , and all the rest of it , then he told the man when to take his refreshments and what beat he was on . |
| 10 | Mr Hughes was also confident that he had it right — not for opinion polls necessarily , but right per se . |
| 11 | As a man of affairs and political influence it is not surprising that he had his opponents . |
| 12 | And the story that I heard which may not be true that he had he did n't have the wig and gown . |