Example sentences of "he have come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’ |
| 32 | He has come by the property without stealing it and has later assumed a right to it by keeping it . |
| 33 | Against odds of four to one , he had come through alive . |
| 34 | He had come through the back of the coffee shop yard , through the kitchen , out onto the verandah . |
| 35 | When she looked up he had come through the barrier towards her . |
| 36 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 37 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 38 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 39 | He had come across rooms with hammers hammered into the walls , screwdrivers screwed into the floor and saws sawed in half . |
| 40 | Roland told his half-truth about his bit of a letter , not saying when or where he had come across it . |
| 41 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 42 | Really they need a horse-whipping , and my father would have administered it , I assure you , if he had come across such fiends ! |
| 43 | He had come across severe abnormalities — particularly of the limbs — in children of mothers who had taken thalidomide during pregnancy . |
| 44 | A few years later , a homosexual friend of Anne 's said that he had come across a man who looked like Dustin , who hung out in gay bars , telling everyone he was Dustin Hoffman . |
| 45 | He tore a page from his notebook , offered it with a pencil to Sharpe , then volunteered his own patrol to take the despatch to General Dornberg 's headquarters in Mons. Dornberg was the General in charge of these cavalry patrols which watched the French frontier , and finding one of his officers had been a stroke of luck for Sharpe ; by pure accident he had come across the very men whose job was to alert the allies of any French advance . |
| 46 | There was a feel to the world unlike anything he had come across back in England . |
| 47 | Mr Vallance said the most innovative approaches to home banking using telecommunications that he had come across anywhere were the different approaches of the Bank of Scotland the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 48 | The Maggot had played American football until he had come off his Harley-Davidson at eighty miles an hour and permanently damaged his left knee . |
| 49 | He had come off his motor-bike . |
| 50 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 51 | On one occasion he went to Dundee where the promoter knocked down his purse from £4 to £2. 10s. because he had come on his motor bike rather than on the train . |
| 52 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 53 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 54 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 55 | Anpetuwi , where he had come with his hurt and confusion , and Anpetuwi , which had not disappointed him , taking him and holding him in its gentle heart as a mother held a child . |
| 56 | He had come as a student of farming to this dairy , thinking he would be here only a short time . |
| 57 | Now he had come to her . |
| 58 | His rather was Catalan ; he had come to Mexico as a young man and worked in his brother-in-law 's grocery shop . |
| 59 | He had come to Althorp , their family home , for a pheasant shoot . |
| 60 | Dusan Zivkovic , aged 65 , a Yugoslav Serb who was handed to the communists by the British but managed to escape , said he had come to court to find the culprits and ‘ nail the bastards ’ who had sent his fellow countrymen to their deaths . |