Example sentences of "[vb past] he have [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When interviewed by police , Ellis claimed he had tried to dissuade the girl from working as a prostitute . |
| 2 | He claimed he had acted to protect US lives ; to defend the Panama Canal ( control of which was to passed over to Panama on January 1 , 1990 — eleven days before the invasion ) ; to ‘ restore democracy ’ to Panama ; and to stop drug trafficking and bring Noriega to justice . |
| 3 | Whatever it was , he felt he had to get rid of them . ’ |
| 4 | Nothing was resolved and Athelstan felt he had failed to take a decisive role . |
| 5 | He gave every impression of being a man besotted with her — he felt he had failed to grasp the one chance of happiness facing him . ’ |
| 6 | His action had been almost instant and she knew he had wanted to beat her instead . |
| 7 | When he heard her last remark he understood it and knew he had to get rid of her quickly . |
| 8 | And he knew he had to get rid of her . |
| 9 | Slater said , and Graham felt his eyes widening , that pulling back of the skin towards the ears he thought he had seen frozen on her face , Left ? |
| 10 | He spun on his heel and surveyed the forecourt in the area of the pumps , searching for something he thought he had seen lying there . |
| 11 | ‘ You thought he had decided to stop being so tyrannical ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I thought he had come to take you away , Jim , ’ she said , breaking into tears . |
| 13 | When he waited outside pubs , the pub-owners chased him away because they thought he had come to steal something . |
| 14 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 15 | And Pilate made this tremendous mistake , he thought he had got rid of Jesus . |
| 16 | As time went by , he thought he had managed to rectify the situation between him and his wife . |
| 17 | As Saturday draws near , the communist dream he thought he had helped realise is in danger of turning to ashes in his hands . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought he 'd stopped manipulating people . |
| 19 | Greg noticed out of the corner of his eye Mr Kronweiser waddling out through the door , and thought he 'd finished work early for the day . |
| 20 | Vietnam was the war his classmates presumed he had prayed to go to , in his near-daily Masses at Annapolis , in the uniform of the Marines . |
| 21 | When he recovered he had decided to stop fencing . |
| 22 | The Shah announced the divorce on the radio in many ways it was reminiscent of King Edward VII 's speech to the British people when he announced he had decided to marry Mrs Simpson . |
| 23 | WEST HAM midfielder Martin Allen was yesterday handed a four-match ban and a £1,000 fine by the Football Association — less than 24 hours after his team-mate Julian Dicks received his 40th booking in five years and admitted he had considered quitting the game . |
| 24 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 25 | A key witness at the Paul Sheldon murder trial pointed at his two alleged attackers in Court today but admitted he 'd failed to recognise them in police identity parades . |
| 26 | I realized he had managed to overcome what he called his weakness . |
| 27 | But as Dr Dunstaple 's brain cleared he had demanded to know why there was no mustard-plaster on his stomach . |
| 28 | When he was well into his eighties , one of his housekeepers complained he had tried to get her onto the bed — at his age ! ’ |
| 29 | Did he have to poach to get the rabbit ? |
| 30 | Did he have to poach to get the rabbits ? |