Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] have he [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Only once or twice has he taunted me with what sounds like the interesting sport of going into the gents in the Cauldhame Arms ( or anywhere else , I suppose ) and attacking the drowned fag-ends in the urinals with a stream of piss . |
2 | He was later heard to say that seldom had he juggled on such a fine surface . |
3 | He heard Mandru tell all the other Ixmaritians that never had he seen such eloquence of posture , such moving pathos . |
4 | Rarely did Hubert Gaily go out anywhere else , on any other night , and never had he failed to enjoy his close , companionable , ale-coloured Saturday night . |
5 | ‘ Never has homo faber better understood that he has made history and never has he felt so powerless before history ’ . |
6 | But scarcely had he begun to investigate these new , if somewhat less adventurous , hunting-grounds , than the entire party was ‘ summoned back to Hobarton by Sir John ’ . |
7 | But never had he felt for any woman the things he felt for Julia Gillingham . |
8 | The resulting shot , taken by Pascal would have taken the goalkeeper to the back of the net as well had he got near to it . |