Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know not , it may be that Mr is saying this is something that that never it 's never I 've never understood it to be er part of my practice or part of any solicitors practice to offer such a and if we have a solicitor er who has constantly practised in his skills for a very lengthy period of time , that is saying oh yes it is because this , as far as I 'm concerned , standard advice which solicitors should give to clients transactions . |
| 2 | Charles Darwin , for Dregs Ale , from the public bar at the Dodo Agogo Inn : Joseph Hooker has just triumphed in his debate with Bishop ( Soapy Sam ) Wilberforce over Darwin 's Origin of Species . |
| 3 | Graham has already complained in his programme notes about the lack of support at Highbury — yesterday the fans hit back . |
| 4 | Does he agree that the time has come to put forward with ever greater clarity the kind of Europe which we want and which he has already outlined in his comments ? |
| 5 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 6 | Perhaps because of the kidding tone of Heller 's God Knows , Jacobson has studiously reined in his comic instinct in this work . |
| 7 | I think Troon was the greatest Arnold Palmer has ever played in his life . |
| 8 | Howard laughs more in his first few weeks on Harry 's group than he has ever laughed in his life before . |
| 9 | As he knows , he got the biggest majority he has ever had in his constituency against me . |
| 10 | And the wings he has now began in his heart , |
| 11 | These have been described as a fraud upon the public because , even if a data user has solemnly undertaken in his registration statement not to disclose the data to any third party , he will under the Act be deemed not to have contravened the terms of his registration if he access to requests from police or tax officers pleading prejudice to their enquiries . |
| 12 | ( He laughs briefly and in a second has never laughed in his life . ) |
| 13 | Perhaps only Barrie could have made a successful match between two such unpromising characters — a man who boasts that he has never laughed in his life and a woman who is acutely aware of being devoid of charm . |
| 14 | He felt hurt and angry and older than he 'd ever felt in his life before . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's happened , Mr Gooseneck ? ’ asked Amiss , when he had worked his way through the first stage of what was one of the best breakfasts he 'd ever had in his life . |
| 16 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
| 17 | Ronni also understood now that hurt look she 'd sometimes seen in his eyes during his angry exchanges with Silvia . |
| 18 | He looked as though he 'd never smiled in his life . |
| 19 | Her attitude irritated Froebe more than anyone else 's had ever done in his military career . |
| 20 | Thus , in 1202 at the Lincolnshire Assize , the defendant was acquitted of rape , having successfully argued in his defence that ‘ tunc et prius et post fuit succuba eius ’ — she had lain with him both before and afterwards . |
| 21 | Twice winner of the Paris event , seventh last year in London and then sprinting away in the final 200 metres to win the Berlin marathon ahead of Plaatjes , Brace has collected more money than he could have ever earned in his chosen profession of teaching . |
| 22 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
| 23 | According to Patrick Forbes , in Champagne , the abbey of Hautvillers owned one hundred arpents ( an arpent is an old French measure which varied in size between thirty-five and fifty ares ) of vineyards some thirty years before Dom Pérignon 's time and this estate would have certainly increased in his lifetime . |
| 24 | He is said to have never smiled in his life . |
| 25 | He alleged that Whitefoot had literally spat in his eye . |
| 26 | However , Richard Baxter had only preached in his new meeting house once , when the authorities moved to arrest him once more . |
| 27 | Wayne had halfway believed in his own account of the innocence of its contents , but now he was n't so sure . |
| 28 | The first project was a film on Scapa Flow made with a director whose talent in obtaining striking images of light on water , cloud formation , or reeds bending in the wind I had greatly admired in his previous work . |
| 29 | Arthur Acland , the then president of the Association , had already stated in his address to this meeting that in the promotion of " effective use of the English language " , one of the best means was " to foster a love of English literature " Thus , English literature was seen by members of the Association as the most effective vehicle for establishing through elementary education acceptable standards of linguistic usage . |
| 30 | Clark says that the idea had already gelled in his mind as far back as September 1981 . |