Example sentences of "[pron] he have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there someone he 's never got over ? |
| 2 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 3 | In 1944 her son , Dr Istvan Csicsery-Rónay , prevailed on the Soviet commander to return the contents , with which he had just made off . |
| 4 | She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father . |
| 5 | At night , at certain seasons , it glowed like fire , sometimes it seemed but the portal of a well-lighted hall ; and one old stone-breaker declared he had heard wonderful music issuing therefrom , the like of which he had never heard before ; while on one occasion he had seen troops of gaily-dressed elfins repairing thither , some on foot and some in carriages , and they all went into this mysterious hall . |
| 6 | Then he leaned towards her and took both her hands in his and began to study them as if they were entirely new creations , the like of which he had never seen before . |
| 7 | His exquisite prose is perhaps most evident in his unusual book A Hand Through Time ( 1938 ) , which he had originally intended not to be published until after his death . |
| 8 | She 'd explained that he 'd be staying away for the two nights , which he 'd never done before ; she only hoped she 'd explained it well enough . |
| 9 | He jumps up from the day-bed on which he has just sat down . |
| 10 | William is very worried as to whether he will pass his solicitor 's final examination which he has already failed twice . |
| 11 | It was an unforgivable , though unintended , breach of confidence ; and it is but a small consolation to know that Herr Sussmeyer thereby gained a correspondence with a young woman which he has doubtless found extremely gratifying . |
| 12 | Which he has completely filled up |
| 13 | His interruptions therefore coincide with his rejection of the principles of politeness to which he has hitherto adhered quite consistently . |
| 14 | Watching her reflected in the mirror , marred by the black specks on the surface , and feeling the stickiness of the lacquer on her hair , he began to panic , it was n't how it should have been , he grabbed his shirt and jacket , he was running down the stairs , sickness heaving in his throat , an old fear of something he had never recognised before . |
| 15 | There seemed nothing left for him to do but go back to London , provide Fiona with some trumped-up evidence of adultery by spending the night with a prostitute — something he had never done before — and try to find a job . |
| 16 | Something he 'd rather had n't happened . |
| 17 | He pointed to the one he had just come out of . |
| 18 | Emily 's expression was one he had never seen before . |
| 19 | Dr Francis Odling-Smee , a lecturer at Brunel University , Middlesex , said his father , when in his late 70s , told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life . |
| 20 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 21 | He is a man who has deliberately avoided certain responsibilities in his life , and certain involvements , but those business obligations which do unavoidably devolve upon him he has always observed punctiliously . |
| 22 | I think that erm across the road from me he 's just mucked around . |
| 23 | Friends such as Edward Clodd , who expected Hardy to be relieved by her death in 1912 , found instead that he was overcome with remorse for neglecting one whom he had once loved so well . |
| 24 | Adam , among his computers , reflected on the coypu man , whose bill he had later paid , but whom he had never seen again . |
| 25 | The numbers attending were usually small but on one occasion the minister ( Mr Dwyer himself , it is implied , ) found that 300 people , some of whom he had never seen before , had gathered to hear him . |
| 26 | He left with a young , red-haired whore whom he had never seen before . ’ |
| 27 | The next thing he knew — by this time he would have the undivided attention of the entire bar — one of the Americans tore his fur hat off and screamed , ‘ OK , craphead , where is he ? ’ while one of the bobbies reached into the open back seat and pulled out an attaché case that he had to spend an hour telling them he had never seen before . |
| 28 | It was as if the boy was somehow both more and , at the same time , less human than anyone he had ever come across . |
| 29 | He could not believe what he had just lived through . |
| 30 | The commonest explanation of King Hussein 's behaviour is that he is only doing what he has always done best : surviving . |