Example sentences of "[noun sg] he have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He is convinced this is the best Fermanagh side he has ever played on , and adamant that the county 's emergence is no overnight success .
2 He left the room and in his bed he wept with a violence he had never known before , spasm following spasm .
3 A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish .
4 He led me into the hut he had just come out of
5 So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store .
6 Friends from the council he had once served on .
7 Nina came in soon after , flapping her arms like pterodactyl wings , and pounced on a girl he had never seen before .
8 Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice .
9 ‘ Oak Lodge , ’ Wynne-Jones breathed , and repeated the name as if savouring the sound of a place he had once known well .
10 He and Dinah together could make books that would be widely read in scholarly circles ; he would achieve recognition of a sort he had never had before ; in America they would know of no disgrace about him , and in any case he was now married .
11 It was a sound he had never heard before : like sitting in a tall tree full of hornets .
12 Primaflora was absent when he arrived at the villa and when she returned , an hour later , she was wearing a girdle and a left sleeve he had never seen before , and a jewelled coif with a curled feather in it .
13 Sometimes the maintenance engineer is dealing with a type of failure he has never had before .
14 Modigliani arrived with a box of paints and a canvas he had already worked on .
15 SEAN KELLY , 36 next month , will find in the 164-mile Tour of Flanders tomorrow that it will not be his age but the rest of the professional ‘ peleton ’ that will make victory in the one classic he has never won practically impossible , writes Phil Liggett .
16 I put a lot of it down to Harry Enfield ; just this week he 'd really taken off .
17 Charlie grabbed a seat in the corner of an unlit carriage and stared out of the grimy window at a passing English countryside he had never seen before .
18 He worked in a fair frenzy for two hours , making demands of the paint he 'd never made before , plastering it on with palette knife and fingers , attempting to capture at least the shape and proportion of the thing 's head and neck .
19 He only knew that Liza was the most sexually exciting woman he had ever come across and that , should they meet again , neither would be able to hold back from a passion which was so powerful it could only lead to trouble , about which his wife might come to hear .
20 He subsequently received letters from CSRG and university counsel claiming that all the work he had contributed to Berkeley since NET2 was ‘ University proprietary , ’ a phrase he had never heard before .
21 Vitor enquired , in a sardonic reminder of a phrase he had once used before .
22 Coupled with a wave of popular sympathy for Gaddafi as a bereaved father , resentment at what was seen as Washington 's bully-boy tactics appeared to have rallied the Libyans behind him with a solidarity he had rarely enjoyed before .
23 ‘ By nature Paul is a quiet , unassuming lad , but this season he has really come out of his shell and his game has improved no end .
24 Behind the wheel was a young Japanese man he had never seen before , but Mum seemed to know all about him .
25 After all , he was better-looking than any man he had ever come across .
26 As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense .
27 His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before .
28 It was some music he 'd never heard before , but he turned it up loud anyway and took a deep breath and settled back into his seat .
29 But it was like no music he had ever experienced before .
30 Time and again , that woman had shown herself to be as scheming and ruthless as any criminal-minded rogue he had ever come across ; with the exception of his good self , of course .
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