Example sentences of "[pron] he have [adv] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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1 | But Simon had belatedly realised the trap into which he had already put a toe — and drew back . |
2 | Imminent retirement lay ahead after a career of almost sub-average distinction , in anticipation of which he had already bought a small house on the edge of St. Omer . |
3 | But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part . |
4 | The SDP leader Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson had declared that his party could not continue to participate in the previous PP-SDP-PA centre-left coalition arrangement without a clear consensus on two key policy issues : Iceland 's position in EFTA negotiations with the European Communities ( EC ) , in which he had personally played a leading role as Foreign Minister , and a proposed US$1,000 million project to build a new aluminium smelting plant south of Reykjavik . |
5 | Conran asked this manager to carry out a feasibility study , the result of which convinced him that Habitat should move into France , a country for which he has always had a great fondness . |
6 | Mind you he has n't had a very good partner though ! |
7 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
8 | Since marrying her he had n't cast an eye on anyone else . |
9 | It was only later , when I was lying in my bed , with the neon lights of a bar across the road flickering on the curtains and music blaring , that I remembered Ward standing in the saloon of the Cutty Sark and asking Iris Sunderby who she had in mind as navigator , who the man was who had convinced her he had also seen a ship locked in the ice of the Weddell Sea . |
10 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |
11 | When I complained to one of the newspaper 's senior editors , he told me he had just rejected an article highly critical of me and ray position . |
12 | Do n't tell me he has n't made a set at your pretty mistress ! ’ |
13 | Barney sniggered then continued , ‘ Selwyn Hopkins told me he has just bought a motorbike . |
14 | Under Reg 20 , an employer was to deduct tax at source at the basic rate where he had made a payment to an employee in respect of whom he had not received a code of authorisation , subject to certain conditions . |
15 | The accused , a 40-year-old police officer with a wife and a recently discarded mistress , claimed that the woman in question , to whom he had casually given a lift , offered him sex in return . |
16 | Prodev replaced Radoslav Radev , whom he had also replaced a week earlier as president of the Union of Journalists . |
17 | The Minister was pictured beaming over his in-laws ' garden gate with the children about whom he had earlier made a plaintive ‘ keep them out of it ’ appeal . |
18 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
19 | What he has n't had a single bottle today ? |