Example sentences of "[conj] he have turned " in BNC.

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1 Still , he 'd be sorry one day that he 'd turned her down .
2 And shortly after the daylight found him , he was pensively studying a box of a dozen contraceptives that he 'd turned out of her soapcase .
3 By this time , Lewis had shown Morse the yellow A4 sheet ; and Morse had seemed so delighted with it that he 'd turned on the car 's internal light in transit .
4 Speculation that he had turned his back on the fast world of Wall Street finance was fuelled by reports that he has spent his time in prison studying the Jewish religion .
5 Robert Maxwell reassured shareholders and the world at large that he had turned his giant mind to the greenhouse effect .
6 McLeish grunted , feeling meanly triumphant that he had turned out to be right in his view that Francesca would not be able to sweep Tristram out of the hands of the New York police in quite the Napoleonic way she had assumed .
7 And then he remembered that it was in exactly this position in exactly this place that he had turned to face Lucy , less than three weeks ago , shouting obscenities at her .
8 It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county .
9 In the seventies , McQueen 's appearances became more intermittent , and it was reported that he had turned increasingly temperamental , rejecting more scripts than he was prepared to accept .
10 Manager Trevor Francis confirmed yesterday that he had turned down the huge offer from Toulon .
11 And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post .
12 He sat motionless , swathed in a greatcoat despite the day 's oppressive heat , and with his face concealed by the peak of his hat that he had turned fore and aft to shadow his eyes .
13 Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ?
14 On being questioned , Murdock told Boulton that he had turned the hat out of wood on a lathe that he had designed himself .
15 He was held in the Tower of London and then at Chepstow Castle and was released in 1665 without having been tried , on the understanding that he sailed for Carolina , which gave rise to the belief that he had turned informer .
16 A possible scenario is that he had turned to leave the church when he was attacked from behind . ’
17 His voice cut into her thoughts , and she realised that he had turned to look at her .
18 His other concession to fame is that he has turned one room of his house in Oswestry into his office where his sister-in-law is his full-time secretary , though she also helps Woosnam 's wife , Glyndreth , with their young family .
19 Talking about his future , Keith says that he has turned down an approach from Rugby and it 's up to Gloucester now whether they keep him on .
20 On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street .
21 Rebecca was busy , he had said , so he had turned to Lissa .
22 Once he had turned the corner , he took the coat off and slipped it over his arm .
23 For she had been so sure that , once he had turned the matter over in a cooler frame of mind , he would recognise and acknowledge her innocence .
24 When Patrick had stormed out of the room , his head pounding , bile in his throat , he had started for his room , but then he had thought of Jane , and he had turned and headed back down the hall towards the room she shared with her sister .
25 And he had turned up alone at Emma Chisholm 's house …
26 They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting .
27 And he had turned , his sweet face alive with devilment , one arm outflung as if presenting someone on stage to an audience .
28 and they do it electrically or you can do it manually and he 's turned them round manually and now the water 's coming out normal put them back to how they were
29 He knows when to turn back and he has turned back frequently when things are n't right .
30 She climbed into the car without hesitation , and waited until he had turned round again , using a side road opposite , before speaking .
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