Example sentences of "he has [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clever western diplomacy could try to make him appear less heroic , by keeping the linkage vague , but then — unless he has belatedly realised the hopelessness of his position — he would see no benefit in it . |
| 2 | The fact that a person was aware of an exclusionary term or notice does not in itself mean that he has voluntarily accepted the risk ( s. 2(3) ) . |
| 3 | In particular circumstances a director may owe a duty directly to shareholders ; that duty will not derive from his status as a director but from particular responsibilities he has voluntarily taken on . |
| 4 | Maguire will surely be champion jockey in due course but appreciates what a long haul he has ahead of him this season . |
| 5 | The author states , quite correctly in the reviewer 's opinion , that the Southern Railway 's passenger ancillary vehicles had a character all of their own and he has meticulously chronicled their fleet . |
| 6 | ‘ He has lately recovered his childhood faith , ’ Everard explained , ‘ as I also did some years ago . ’ |
| 7 | And while he has successfully offended the doctrinaire Protestants , he does not seem to have pleased the Pope . |
| 8 | He has successfully rescued a whole series of major houses , without a penny of historic buildings grants , by adapting them as self-contained houses and cottages . |
| 9 | Morrissey , formerly lead singer of the Smiths and now a solo artist , is the central figure in this demi-monde and he has successfully mounted a long career based on a delightfully British blend of prurience and prudery . |
| 10 | The reading of my Botanick Essays and the Experiments he has successfully made in pursuance of what I have advanced there has created in him an earnestness to correspond with me . |
| 11 | His dealings with the chief sources of Opera North 's subsidy , the Arts Council and Leeds City Council , are happy enough , and he has successfully scotched a dismal plan to merge with Scottish Opera , but he worries that Leeds lacks a ‘ coherent cultural policy ’ of the sort that Birmingham and Glasgow have committed themselves to . |
| 12 | He has successfully persuaded the crowd that justice has been done . |
| 13 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 14 | He has just walked out into a spectacular summer storm . |
| 15 | Raskolnikov uses the blade of his axe on her , whereas he has just used the back of it on the older woman , crushing her skull . |
| 16 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 17 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 18 | Moran knows a bit about markets : he has a personal fortune estimated at £150 million , and he has just announced that he intends to spend £25 million converting a remnant of medieval London into a sumptuous family home . |
| 19 | Len Snow , Boateng 's agent says : ‘ His principles have n't changed — he has just adapted them to the '90s . ’ |
| 20 | He has just increased his majority from under 11,000 to over 16,000 . |
| 21 | He has just been appointed head of the private office of Jean Glavany , France 's Secretary of State for Technical Education . |
| 22 | He has just heard that Pringle 's is not reordering , and has phoned to inquire the reason . |
| 23 | He has just emerged from the studio after recording his third album ; there will be many musical surprises in store . |
| 24 | Barney sniggered then continued , ‘ Selwyn Hopkins told me he has just bought a motorbike . |
| 25 | Professor Sharp , of the Memorial University of Newfoundland , writes that he has just run across the earwig after having acquired five years ' back numbers of this magazine and to say that the Anglo-Saxons had a word for it , as we are all too well aware from listening to conversations between small children . |
| 26 | Please always tell me the scientific name of your fish if possible , even if it means phoning up your dealer to ask what he has just sold you . |
| 27 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 28 | KEVIN PRESSMAN last night revealed that he still wants to leave Sheffield Wednesday — even though he has just signed a new three-and-a-half year contract . |
| 29 | ‘ But this year he has just gone out and done the job . |
| 30 | ‘ From day one he has just been a super example to everyone — from YTS players to internationals — with his performances in matches and in training . ’ |