Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the 1987 Act provides that where a minor has acquired property under a contract which is unenforceable against him , or which he has repudiated on the grounds of minority , he may be required by the court , when it thinks it ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so , to return the property , or else property representing that which he has acquired ( without prejudice to any other remedy available to the plaintiff ) . |
| 2 | Pascoe realized that what he 'd heard in the voice on the phone had n't been age , but sickness . |
| 3 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 4 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 5 | He returned to the living-room and found that what he had taken to be a cupboard door , in fact gave access by a flight of stairs to the shop . |
| 6 | It may be that what he 's said in court is purely something to get back at you and he does n't really mean it . |
| 7 | And if you 're putting him right over clubs , you 'd better be 101 percent right if you 're telling him that what he 's got in mind is the wrong thing . |
| 8 | He will though , he 'll get more now than what he 's paid for it ! |
| 9 | Vang Pao had earlier told the Bangkok Post newspaper of the formation of a " revolutionary government of Laos " which had established itself in Laos and which he had visited on certain occasions . |
| 10 | A feeling of malaise which had beset him earlier , and which he had blamed on the news from Oxford , persisted . |
| 11 | She defines the practice as ’ … the use by an insider of price sensitive information ( known to him but not generally and which he has acquired by virtue of his position ) to trade to his advantage in the shares of a company . ’ |
| 12 | What Gromyko had said to him and what he had said to Shevardnadze . |
| 13 | Particularly in view of Paul 's remarks and what he had said about Jane Postlethwaite . |
| 14 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 15 | Jed thought of that night at Mitch 's and what he 'd said to Sharon . |
| 16 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |
| 17 | and what he 'd done to this pillow was no one 's business . |
| 18 | And what he has done with such ready money as he kept about his house neither I nor his clerk can tell as yet . ’ |
| 19 | Christian presuppositions are nothing less than the whole truth of who God is and what he has done for us . |
| 20 | What he has done for leukaemia research is brilliant — and what he has done for me is give me my confidence back . |
| 21 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 22 | The Zuckerman books are a medley of differences and affinities between what we are able to infer about Roth 's life and what he has made of it in art . |
| 23 | Mark tells us so much about who Jesus is and what he 's come for just by showing us that one miracle but what I 'm suggesting to you here is that you can look for greater meaning in it , further symbolism . |
| 24 | She felt stunned , as if what he had done to her had somehow paralysed not only her limbs but her senses too , leaving her tense . |
| 25 | She hung his jacket on a hanger on the hat-and-coat fixture next to the deerstalker hat that Sebastian invariably donned when he went out , but which he had left behind when he 'd gone to India . |
| 26 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 27 | He was a literary man and he had dreamed of becoming the Shakespeare of the movies , but what he had become in fact was more like a movie version of Dickens . |
| 28 | But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies , halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere . |