Example sentences of "he [adv] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their friends ' eyes it would have been unreasonably proprietorial of him not to have released her with a minimum of fuss . |
| 2 | Any question of him ever having had any dealings with our British friends ? ’ |
| 3 | Finding him here had robbed her of her appetite , but she needed a coffee badly . |
| 4 | This time the interruption came from a man in the front row of the audience , a tall man who was leaning forward , and George looked at him , feeling less hostility than the woman who had shouted at him earlier had created ; and then he realized it was because he spoke in an educated voice . |
| 5 | He had spent time ‘ inside ’ himself , once , when an assignment that had taken him abroad had gone badly wrong . |
| 6 | He stuck with his ideas , and for a year did all kinds of manual work as a casual labourer till he eventually had amassed enough money to start a grocery business with a friend . |
| 7 | He apparently has done quite a lot of good work in the past . |
| 8 | He obviously had thought out everything in advance , because he led her quite briskly to a deserted passage , under the rather trite pretence that he wanted to show her a certain painting . |
| 9 | He obviously has heeded Ruskin 's advice not just to look at things but to ‘ watch ’ them . |
| 10 | Finally the Secretary of State bowed to the inevitable , and agreed to abolish the ILEA in 1990 , although he personally had expressed doubts about the ability of some of the boroughs to provide an effective education service . |
| 11 | Junack told me that he personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship by placing explosive charges in the cooling water intakes and to open the seacocks , and that he and others had done this ; and this was confirmed by an engine-room rating named Werner Lust who stayed on in England after his release as a prisoner-of-war . |
| 12 | He was reluctant , because he believed that he personally had ejected the Shah and that his standing was now so great that he could face down Khomeini alone . |
| 13 | ‘ Why should he suddenly have materialized out of the blue ? ’ |
| 14 | Would Mr Lawson then have resisted the temptation to trundle round his Cabinet colleagues , showing off his muscles and boasting that he alone had faced up to the Iron Lady and won ? |
| 15 | In his testimony to Congress in July 1987 — which had been given under immunity and was , therefore , inadmissible at his trial — Poindexter had said that he alone had authorized the Iran-contra operation and that Reagan had known nothing of it [ see pp. 35828-29 ] . |
| 16 | A similar banality in 2010 is unrelieved by Kubrick 's wicked irony , but is partly concealed by the excellent acting of Scheider , Mirren , Balaban , Lithgow , Baskin , and , of course , Douglas Rain again as the voice of HAL — he alone had escaped from Kubrick 's anti — acting regime in 2001 , to become the only character that anyone cares about or indeed remembers . |
| 17 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Saddam can claim that he alone has resisted the greatest military power in the world plus allies for longer than any Arab states ever resisted Israel , or anybody . |
| 19 | Would he just have left me … |
| 20 | Mike , though he not have thought it at the time , was extremely lucky , as the aircraft hit the ground the fuselage broke open , his helmet came off , became lodged in the opening and was then crushed as the fuselage closed again . |
| 21 | Why could he not have foreseen what we see now ? |
| 22 | With this one issue so heavy on his mind , might he not have muttered some confused reference to it in his dreams ? |
| 23 | Only if he succeeded after 14 December 685 would he not have completed twenty years by 14 December 705 . |
| 24 | If there is indeed any foundation for these fears — which I do not at all suppose , for why should he not have contacted me if he was in such trouble ? — I shall settle the matter at once . |
| 25 | If God created primitive living things like plants for animals to eat ( do plants have theos rights ? ) , then why should He not have created more complex but still primitive beings which kill each other and may be eaten by man who has been set in dominion over all else ? |
| 26 | Could he not have issued a warning ? " |
| 27 | Could he not have married you ? ’ |
| 28 | Should he not have acquired a deep mental calm and certainty ? |
| 29 | Rather than warning Arabs and Israelis not to attack one another , might he not have used his influence in Arab capitals to resolve the problem in the Straits of Tiran ? |
| 30 | Rather than railing against American policy in Vietnam in 1966 – 67 , might he not have attempted to mediate a solution to the conflict ? |