Example sentences of "[vb -s] he has [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 2 | Mr Larkin says he has learned from the criminal underworld about the events on the night of April 27 . |
| 3 | Stellato says he has paid for his crime , but believes the sentence was a mistake . |
| 4 | Stellato says he has paid for his crime , but believes the sentence was a mistake . |
| 5 | Moss says he has negotiated with the unnamed firms to ensure they wo n't be duplicating each others ' efforts . |
| 6 | Moss says he has negotiated with the unnamed firms to ensure they wo n't be duplicating each others ' efforts . |
| 7 | He acknowledges he has learned from Porter 's writing on competitive advantage , but probably speaks for most of his peers when he says : ‘ I do n't read business texts written by academics for the purpose of discovering a direct application that I can use . |
| 8 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 9 | The jackal thinks he has feasted on the buffalo when in fact he has just eaten the eyes , entrails and testicles rejected by the lion . ’ |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimates he has made of the costs of providing accommodation for those leaving the Army as a result of the reductions in the Army under ’ Options for Change ’ . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimates he has made of the effect on the reactive capability of United Kingdom defence industries of a reduction in defence expenditure to the Western European Union average . |
| 12 | He believes he has detected in Nottingham the emergence of new types of TMP resistant DHFRs . |
| 13 | Especially rich in irony is Le Prestre et Alison , " The Priest and Alison " , in which a lecherous priest believes he has succeeded in bedding a beautiful young girl but has had , in the darkness , an elderly whore substituted for her . |
| 14 | Gooch , still wary of any contact with the press , offered no explaination , but proceded to react in a manner which suggests he has decided upon the antidote to troubles at home and troubles with the bat . |