Example sentences of "[num] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 2 | By the time he was 30 he had sailed to Iceland and West Africa . |
| 3 | By 1202 he had accepted from William Brewer an offer of a fine of 500 marks for the marriage of the daughter and heiress of Hugh of Morville , late hereditary warden of Inglewood forest , with his son Richard or his nephew Richard Gernon , and for having Hugh 's forest wardenship on the same terms . |
| 4 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 5 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 6 | In 1991 he had resigned as a member of the FLN 's central committee in order to stand as an independent candidate in the abortive general election of December 1991 . |
| 7 | When Ras Tafari had paid his State Visit to London in 1924 he had brought with him several important chiefs , among them Ras Hailu of Gojjam and Ras Seyum of Tigre , the grandson of the Emperor John , all of whom he suspected might make trouble if he left them behind . |
| 8 | We know that Lethieullier was also interested in anatomy , for in 1734 he had offered to the Royal Society three infants preserved in spirit , ‘ … of which one Elizabeth Baggs , a hard labouring woman in Oxford , was delivered at one birth in 1714 ’ and who lived for but a few hours afterwards . |
| 9 | In June 1940 he had risen to a position of leadership as a result of extraordinary circumstances , to a degree by default ( because better-known people had either rallied to Pétain or done nothing ) , and certainly without having served a normal political apprenticeship . |
| 10 | At his favourite monastery of Grandmont , where in 1170 he had wanted to be buried , he met Count Audebert of La Marche . |
| 11 | By 1252 he had come to England , married Maud de Lacy , and as co-heir to the Lacy inheritance received some of their Irish lands . |
| 12 | By 1798 he had moved into the business of insurance as a member of Lloyd 's . |
| 13 | Well , at about half-seven he 'd gone into a restaurant in St Giles ‘ , Browns ; had a nice steak , with a bottle of red wine ; left at about half-nine — and was strolling down to The Randolph when he 'd met Mrs Sheila Williams , just outside the Taylorian , as she was making for the taxi-rank . |
| 14 | He had seemed indefatigable ; his diaries reveal that between 1865 and 1870 he had travelled at least forty-two thousand miles per year , but he died only seven years after his father , leaving the business in the capable hands of his sons Ernest , Frank and Tom . |
| 15 | By 1917 he had succeeded in breaking much of the German admirals ' flag code , detecting , with his ear for metre , lines of poetry in the repeated bigrams of a message , which provided a crib . |
| 16 | At the time of his mother 's death in 1582 he had drifted to France to join other exiled English Catholics at Douai . |
| 17 | Although in 1962 he had appealed to the Government of Ireland Act , in 1963 he described it as a ‘ constitution of bondage ’ . |
| 18 | Since 1981 he has lived in Paris and this is his first ‘ French ’ novel , set in a fashionable Parisian intellectual world where the principal characters sit a health club discussing this and that , with the author , from time to time , joining in . |
| 19 | By the age of ten he had taken to dreamily wandering around areas of Stretford and Hulme not normally reserved for the vision of one so young . |
| 20 | It was from the vantage point of the Master 's Lodge , a family place , that Thomson , cheerful and generous , made his most distinctive contribution to university affairs , although he had already been active since the 1930s in adult education , as both a part-time tutor and a committee member , and from 1950 to 1958 he had sat on the council of the senate . |
| 21 | By the time that Orchard made his last will in January 1504 he had married for a second time . |
| 22 | By January 1930 he had arrived in Hong Kong where he established the Vietnamese Communist Party which soon merged into the Indo-China Communist party or Dong Duong Cong-San Dang . |
| 23 | In 1845 he had written to a friend : |
| 24 | The court heard how in February 1977 he 'd jumped into Janie 's car while it was parked in West London and forced her to drive to the countryside at knife point . |
| 25 | And , indeed , he must have been a tough little lad to have survived it all , though it was to take its toll on him eventually ; by the time he died in far-away London at the age of 29 he had lived through some very harsh times indeed . |
| 26 | Lewyn 's works at Carlisle and Roxburgh were completed by 1387 , but in 1380 he had contracted with John of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster [ q.v. ] , |
| 27 | In 1858 he had moved from the Governorship of Kurland to a position in the Ministry of State Properties , an institution which had forsaken the sympathy for reform which it had displayed under Kiselev . |
| 28 | One week when he was fifteen he 'd slept under the pier . |
| 29 | The millions he had earned from Formula One added to the money he must be making now meant he could provide Thomas with cast-iron financial security , an exceedingly comfortable home and a first-class education . |
| 30 | By 1829 he had succeeded in bringing together most of the country 's cotton-spinners into the Grand General Union of Operative Cotton Spinners , and , although it had disappeared by 1831 , it was an important stage in the heightening of class-consciousness among certain groups of working people . |