Example sentences of "he have [vb pp] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly he has listened at a number of keyholes and collected the right gossip . |
| 2 | Members of the Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation hope to display memorabilia he has donated at a converted church in his home town of Huntington , Indiana . |
| 3 | Slater , a hotel chef trained at the Culinary Institute of America in New York ( he has worked at a restaurant in Kensington ) , got his first headlines by being sacked from a grocery store deli counter because of his Klan activities . |
| 4 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 5 | He lived with Val , whom he had met at a Freshers ' tea party in the Student Union when he was eighteen . |
| 6 | Some creature he had met at a dinner party recently ( he was , it had to be said , from East Finchley ) had had the nerve to tell him that New York was ‘ more vibrant ’ than Wimbledon . |
| 7 | Although the disagreements had been resolved in early March , continuing dissatisfaction in some quarters of the FKgP had been highlighted by the passage on March 18 of a vote of no confidence in FKgP parliamentary group leader Jozsef Torgyan , because of a speech he had made at a rally on March 9 attacking the voucher scheme . |
| 8 | Other than a girl he had seen at a spinning-wheel and singing a song in the Gaelic at Nairn , this was Johnson 's first true contact with the Scots of the west . |
| 9 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 10 | For Christ 's Hospital he designed the new grammar school ( 1793 , demolished ) — receiving a gratuity of 100 guineas ‘ for his great attention during the building ’ because he had charged at a rate of only 2½ per cent instead of the usual 5 per cent — and additions to the school in Hertford ( 1800 ) , and also made designs for various ambitious unexecuted schemes for redeveloping the main buildings . |
| 11 | Now experiencing at first hand with the Boy Scouts of America the role of ‘ spook-in-residence ’ that he had observed at a distance during his earlier incarnation as a BSA executive , Coleman was engaged mainly in recruiting local captains of industry as sponsors and committee chairmen . |
| 12 | On the way he had stopped at a pub for three pints of Guinness , then arrived back in Darlington around 11pm when he was stopped . |
| 13 | Kirov chose another snap which he had taken at a pavement cafe in Tbilisi , bringing his final selection to four . |
| 14 | It had not been shown that the Special Commissioner had misdirected himself or that he had erred in law or that he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion . |
| 15 | The Scottish Nationalists suffered a further setback when one of their leading figures , Mr James Sillars , was ousted from Glasgow Govan , which he had won at a by-election . |