Example sentences of "[conj] he have [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 2 | Was this where he had trained as a young man ? |
| 3 | Although he had served as Reagan 's chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since 1982 , Thomas was a critic of the quota system for employing racial minorities and was seen as an opponent of affirmative action . |
| 4 | He shuffled , he stamped , he stayed well back in the shelter of the narrow brick passageway that he 'd found as a better lookout point . |
| 5 | Mozart worked with the commonplace musical fabric of his time , the prescribed structures , instrumental combinations , harmonic progressions and melodic formulae that he had absorbed as a child , and from which a Salieri and hundreds like him fashioned polite , two-dimensional drawing-room music suitable for the delectation or titillation of many a jaded aristocratic ear . |
| 6 | A warrant for Whitehead 's arrest was issued in Canada in 1985 , alleging that he had operated as a falcon dealer and smuggler for ten years . |
| 7 | that he had made as a boy : |
| 8 | Before that he had served as Minister of External Economic Relations and Supply and had been a member of the MPRP central committee since 1976 . |
| 9 | Mars-Jones J in Palacath Ltd v Flanagan [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 161 decided that a surveyor was not immune without specifically denying that he had acted as a quasi-arbitrator . |
| 10 | Even that great opponent of the industrial system of the nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle ( 1795–1881 ) failed to relate his criticisms to the Christian doctrine that he had abandoned as a young man . |
| 11 | The prisoner had broken his fast on Oct. 12 and there was no evidence that he had died as a result of the strike . |
| 12 | He told me once that he had worked as a farm hand for six shillings a day for thirty years , yet still managed to save enough to buy his own little place . |
| 13 | It seems possible that he had worked as a journeyman for Rastell on some part of the massive volumes of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert 's Graunde abbregement , 1516 , and its Table , 1517 ( Short-Title Catalogue 10954–5 ) . |
| 14 | They did not know that he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor did not tell the infirmary that he was HIV positive before or after he was employed for six shifts in the casualty department . |
| 15 | He failed to show up for the match amidst rumours that he had resigned as West Ham 's manager . |
| 16 | But Mr Thomas emphatically denied this to The People , stressing that he had resigned as a trustee two years ago . |
| 17 | I have used some of the things that he has done as a good example to myself . |
| 18 | That he has been able to combine both ministries would be surprising were it not for the fact that he has worked as an active Socialist besides having a good track record in cultural affairs . |
| 19 | Prior to his dismissal he had been widely regarded as Manley 's heir-apparent , and he had served as acting Prime Minister for several periods during Manley 's illness in 1990 . |
| 20 | He had n't known where to go , but he had a good instinct for direct , and he 'd reckoned as how a gateway had to be in the shell , far away from the heat sink as could be . |
| 21 | And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class . |
| 22 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 23 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 24 | Ted , fortunately , was fluent in ( Belgian ) French because he had flown as a pilot for Sabena for many years and was , I believe , highly thought of by our French colleagues . |
| 25 | Eight months before he had fought as an independent against an official Conservative at a bye-election in the Abbey division of Westminster . |
| 26 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |
| 27 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 28 | Though he had served as a diplomat in both London and Vienna he owed little to the ideas of the Enlightenment : his favourite author was Molière , not any eighteenth-century writer , and under him the works of Voltaire and Montesquieu , as well as Hobbes , Locke and Spinoza , were banned . |