Example sentences of "he has [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Last night heartbroken Sandy , who lived with Brian at Didsbury , Manchester , said : ‘ Everyone who knew him has lost a part of themselves through this tragedy .
2 And worst of all , for me , is that , instead of fizzling out , my love for him has grown .
3 ‘ Whatever chance I had of getting him has gone because of the incredible publicity .
4 " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him .
5 He was a keeper and dealer in secrets ; it 's not surprising the truth about him has emerged only slowly .
6 God 's love for and claim on man are worked out through a judgement and condemnation which disclose a profound alienation and estrangement between man and God , a contradiction in which man has attempted to break away from the tie with God , so that God 's claim on him has become a consuming fire .
7 ‘ Well , ’ continued Gloria between swallows of coffee , ‘ the lady what polishes the cars for him has got a sister what does cleaning at Stowbridge Tech . ’
8 And presumably whatever it was the GP had give him has had tha , upset that thrombosis again .
9 So I would like to see the old law brought back , which says that all the players in front of the kicker must retreat until the kicker or anyone behind him has passed them .
10 Perhaps as a result of his unpopularity , speculation about him has taken a new turn .
11 To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life .
12 He has asserted that the Government have been unable to find a solution and has alluded to one anomaly , but will he state categorically what legislation the Opposition would introduce to resolve the difficulty ?
13 Mr Ross , who is convinced that eleutherococcus could be a major factor in the fight against physical and mental fatigue , said : ‘ He has validated our claims and by confirming the benefits he has found from using it as an aid to post-flight recovery . ’
14 He has challenged his Democratic opponent in electorally more productive areas , such as public funding for abortions .
15 Sir Walter is man enough to recognize the nobility of his victim , but does not see that he has challenged his real adversary — the forces of Nature .
16 He has challenged Labour counterpart Alan Milburn to tell the electorate if he would defy a whip reversing the move .
17 Even if the desire is never satisfied in any but the fantasy way , the man who constantly has such desires is to be condemned , for he is gaining satisfaction from a person whom he has divested of personhood and turned into a slave .
18 Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention .
19 He has apologised unreservedly … he was very disturbed and very sincere in showing his regrets . ’
20 He has apologised unreservedly … he was very disturbed and very sincere in showing his regrets . ’
21 He has apologised and that is accepted . ’
22 He has worried for years ,
23 He has deposited faith , his faith .
24 He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’
25 But he has to behave a little badly .
26 Now he has stepped aside , accused of corruption — much as Fernando Collor , another economic liberaliser , had to step aside before being driven out of office in Brazil last year .
27 To the BBC SSO , whom he holds in great affection — he first came to Scotland in 1988 for their Festival of New Chinese Music — he has gifted a new work , Death and the Fire : a dialogue with Paul Klee , to be premiered on 27 March .
28 Will the Chancellor assist businesses in making their investment plans by telling us whether he has revised his growth forecast for this year in the light of the Prime Minister 's statements in his new year interview , which seemed to cast considerable doubt on the growth forecasts given earlier ?
29 I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred .
30 It would be entirely wrong that A should be allowed to treat as a legal wrong that to which he has consented .
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