Example sentences of "he have before " in BNC.

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1 The first job of the officer is to ‘ determine whether he has before him sufficient evidence to charge that person with the offence for which he was arrested ’ .
2 Scott Gibbs , whose midfield tackling was at the very heart of the Welsh win , has always struck one as having tremendous potential , but he has before now been roundly censured for his use of the ball after a break .
3 When the best man cleared his throat and announced that he was going to fix the puncture he had before leaving , all Moran 's children followed him out to the road and stood around as he got levers and patches and solution .
4 It was about ten minutes long and he had before him a two-hour train journey .
5 Some blamed Jack for wanting to continue the way he had before marriage which , of course , meant occasional flings with the abundance of available women .
6 He had before him also Erasmus 's translation into Latin and that of Luther in German .
7 He had before him the example of the barons of the kingdom who had taken the opportunity to extract from Henry far-reaching legal and financial concessions at the time of his coronation .
8 Only Rayne , standing on the stairs with his fingers idly drumming on the lid of a tin of Scottish shortbread , still looked as sleek as he had before the siege .
9 Scott sat down at his desk and turned his attention to the ledger he had before him .
10 Round about four o'clock in the afternoon he would sometimes forget Morris and sprawl back in his chair with his hands behind his head , yawning and looking at the ceiling , just as he had before Morris 's arrival .
11 When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime .
12 Seb felt happy and comfortable when he was with Carrie — at least , he had before the night they had spent snowed-in together at the farm .
13 The ‘ strange and anomalous nature ’ of the ‘ few extraordinary species ’ he had before him pickled in spirits or dried as skins confounded the imagination even of an ornithologist as instinctive as Gould .
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