Example sentences of "he have used his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since becoming an MP , he has used his acute brain and mischievous wit to ridicule Tory MPs . |
| 2 | An exquisite figure in the ring , he has used his indomitable spirit to capture the imagination of millions everywhere ; he was , in his prime , the most famous man in the world . |
| 3 | Similarly , if he has used his day in court to make wild or unjustified attacks on the defendant , this conduct may be taken into account in reducing the damages . |
| 4 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 5 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 6 | Would we commend Bob Cratchet if he had used his credit card to buy his family a lavish Christmas lunch ? |
| 7 | Boscawen was another of Anson 's fire-eaters , a robust forthright seadog known to his men as ‘ Old Dreadnought ’ , from the name of the ship he had captained during one famous engagement , and he had used his 15 large ships and dozen smaller ‘ cruisers ’ to cause endless annoyance to the French and to tie up ten battalions of French infantry , waiting to repel an anticipated but imaginary landing . |
| 8 | The dinghy had floated right down to him and he had used his last reserves of energy to clamber into it . |
| 9 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 10 | My passenger had had a lucky escape that night ; he had used his wits well and survived another fight . |
| 11 | But not necessarily in a negative way : he had used his blackness to become a better boxer . |
| 12 | He kept remarking on Jeremy 's resourcefulness : shreds of silver indicated that he had used his survival blanket , and he had also stuffed leaves down his trousers for insulation . |
| 13 | Rumours , and later allegations , suggested that he had used his British passport to attend at least one of the Nuremberg rallies . |
| 14 | The court held that the Minister had acted ultra vires in that he had used his power for an improper purpose . |
| 15 | It was a while since he had used his fists in the fairground boxing-booths or in the army regimental championships , and a thrill of excitement surged through him — but his opponent 's reactions were sluggish , and his lumbering attempts at counter-blows had no weight behind them . |
| 16 | Alexei remembered Sidacai 's veiled insolence — the times when he had used his status as the son of a son of Daijin to thwart Burun . |
| 17 | Despite an early passion for natural history ( he had used his mother 's linen cupboard as a combined zoo and museum ) his first impulse was to train as a civil engineer , hoping thereby for opportunities to travel . |
| 18 | Presumably he had used his wiles on the pretty blonde receptionist on duty to elicit this information , which would explain why he was here on the fifth-floor landing harassing her . |
| 19 | On Jan. 30 the Agence France-Presse news agency reported that some 20 Moslem clerics had been arrested in recent weeks and that a 40-year-old preacher had been sacked and condemned to 80 lashes in December after he had used his Friday sermon to insult the leaders of a Saudi women 's association . |
| 20 | He had used his car for these visits . |