Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] he have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 2 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 3 | perhaps he had undone the knot and looked inside or perhaps he had done no more than lift it and feel its weight . |
| 4 | Perhaps he had got himself moved to the bigger town , or perhaps he had gone home to London as some of the children had done . |
| 5 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 6 | Or so he had kept on telling her . |
| 7 | However , for the last 6 months or so he had ceased to make regular efforts to find a job . |
| 8 | Or so he had thought at first , hearing her voice , looking round the well-furnished rooms , the shelves full of old china figures , in her polished house . |
| 9 | He could not think what had got into Helen , normally as rational as himself about all this , or so he had thought . |
| 10 | However , after a year or so he had recovered from all his problems except cribbing and an occasional bout of colic . |
| 11 | The coroner , Nicholas Gardiner , could n't say whether or not he 'd meant to take his own life and recorded an open verdict . |
| 12 | She could never face him at the party if she did n't know where she stood — did n't know whether or not he had rejected her apology or was prepared to be friendly . |
| 13 | Whether or not he had sent the article back ( if it had been rejected ) did not in the least matter . |
| 14 | Steen looked annoyed , but it was difficult to tell whether or not he had recognized the voice . |
| 15 | Secondly , it is immaterial whether or not he had obtained possession before he made the contract with the innocent purchaser ; it is sufficient that the possession was obtained before he transferred or delivered the goods or documents of title to the innocent purchaser . |
| 16 | To belabour the point of whether or not he had knocked would only make her sound shrewish , and she did n't want that added to his list of uncomplimentary adjectives , along with brash and brassy ! |
| 17 | The officer was duly fetched in and asked whether or not he had taken a statement from Wells . |
| 18 | Several journalists questioned him about whether or not he had found it hard being Laura Ashley 's son and his answer told them more than they had realized . |
| 19 | Clearly the minister 's response is inefficient , it 's it 's quite inadequate and what is required is a much more positive stance from the minister , and can the minister tell us whether or not he will be , he will be giving the opportunity to mature entrants to the apprenticeship scheme so that people that have been thrown on the scrap heap over this last fifteen years will have an opportunity and can he tell us whether or not he 's had discussions with British Coal enterprise to allow miners that have been made redundant to come into the new apprenticeship scheme so that they will have new skills which will help them to get new jobs . |
| 20 | I 'm gon na talk to Dave to see whether or not he 's finished his erm neighbourhood watch article whether they can put something in there about and then we hope to have a meeting with you to discuss victims and some erm press releases for that week . |
| 21 | Even when answers start to emerge , it will be some time before those who depend on the industry for a livelihood — and that includes at least 100,000 Scots — will know whether or not he has sent the right signals in a climate of fierce international competition for scarce oil industry investment funds . |
| 22 | This includes an unmarried father whether or not he has acquired parental responsibility for the child by court order or agreement . |
| 23 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |
| 24 | Small shareholders ' champion Gideon Fiegel — the man who led the revolt against Sugar — has won a battle , but it is too soon to say whether or not he has won the war . |
| 25 | Sooner or later he 'd known that he would tell the truth . |
| 26 | If he 's on his own , and not waiting for his friends to come in and help him , sooner or later he has to come and get you . |
| 27 | Or maybe he 'd given the McHoans some bits and pieces of furniture . |
| 28 | Or maybe he 'd gone back to patch things up with his fiancée ? |
| 29 | Or maybe he 'd spotted an old piece of long-forgotten shrapnel . |
| 30 | Or maybe he had seen the onset of labour in the way she had acted earlier , when he and Kāli untwisted the bales of hay for the night and spread out the fresh pine-needle bedding . |