Example sentences of "and he has [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked .
2 And he has done well but then runs into trouble in the considerable shape of Ormanroyd who knocks it long .
3 But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself .
4 Percy Gibbs , now 90 years old , was one of those who volunteered to serve on the committee — and he has done so every since .
5 ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan .
6 And he has waited long enough , ’ Felipe said , looking down at Maggie .
7 He knows when to turn back and he has turned back frequently when things are n't right .
8 Finding himself on the streets , Doisneau felt completely at liberty , and he has remained there ever since .
9 The Minister is a reasonable man and he has shown even more reasonableness than I had expected .
10 Mrs Child , 43 , of Wakefield , said : ‘ Nicola has lost 75 per cent of her sight in the eye and he has got away with it .
11 And , to pay him credit , I think once Mrs Thatcher had gone Douglas Hurd took advantage of the new leadership to drop the demand for a war crimes tribunal , and he has tried very hard recently to develop a common approach to the postwar situation with France , Germany and Italy , the three key countries .
12 Moscovici stresses the social creation of mental states and he has investigated how intellectual ideas become incorporated into common-sense thinking .
13 ‘ He 's technically a very good goalkeeper and he has come on in leaps and bounds in recent weeks , ’ he said .
14 Porterfield said : ‘ We watched him in action against Barcelona and he has come back to train with us again .
15 And he has come home this morning worn out with experience , all grief and all wonder , because she gave him the psaltery on which he played to her , and sent him a message straight out of the jongleurs ’ romances .
16 Jim is a hard hitting sort of individual who knows where he is going in racing and he has brought Down Royal , I feel , out of the 17th century into the 20th — not quite the 21st — in a matter of a couple of years .
17 MacMillan has said from the first announcements that it would be a big company ballet , involving a large cast , and he has provided just that .
18 Pelham was a deeply conscientious constituency MP , and he has left probably the finest record of such duties of any seventeenth-century politician .
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