Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logical really , after what he had said to Pat Merge with the Mallorys ; marry a Mallory . |
| 2 | We checked all but our oilies , hand baggage and briefcases into the airport lock-ups , and after what he had said about the weather , I was glad to see , when we got to the car desk , that he had laid on a four-wheel-drive land-cruiser . |
| 3 | She did not understand how Oliver could be so calm after what he had said about Dad at the end of the party . |
| 4 | Vic Wilcox demanded , an hour or so later , when they were back in his office after what he had referred to as ‘ a quick whistle round the works ’ . |
| 5 | She could n't understand how he dared to show his face after what he had done to Mr Potter . |
| 6 | The Family Reunion , about which he had spoken in his letter of 30 December had opened in March and lasted only five weeks . |
| 7 | There he found fragments uniting the personal and anthropological , whether in the ‘ memory and desire ’ of the Thomsonian buried corpse about which he had read at Harvard , in the Frazerian Mayne Reid deserts of his childhood , in Kipling 's metempsychosis , Rostand , or Jacobean dramatists , or a passage recommended to him by his Harvard Sanskrit teacher , Charles Lanman , who had laid special emphasis on the advice which the Hindu ‘ Lord of Creatures ’ gives to men in thunder . |
| 8 | The value transferred is to be reduced by the value of any other interest in possession in the property to which the beneficiary becomes entitled at the same time or by the amount of any consideration in money or money 's worth which he has received in respect of the determination or disposal . |
| 9 | The rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of that value and the value of any previous chargeable transfers made by the beneficiary , but that value is to be reduced by the value of any other interest in possession in the property to which he becomes entitled at the same time or by the amount of any consideration in money or money 's worth which he has received in respect of the termination or disposal of the interest . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State was empowered by section 14(4) to dispense with the nationality requirement in the case of an individual on the ground of the length of time during which he had resided in the United Kingdom and had been involved in the fishing industry there . |
| 11 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 12 | Bessmertnykh was dismissed as Foreign Minister on Aug. 23 for " passivity " during the coup , during which he had claimed to be ill . |
| 13 | The directorship , for which he had struggled for years , represented to her only a house in Vanier Heights . |
| 14 | It was like seeing the lock for which he had carried around the key , year after ignorant year . |
| 15 | John Harper then gave a talk on the various lead minerals , showing several examples , some of which he had collected in Cumbria . |
| 16 | " He also laid before the Meeting an account of the expenses he had incurred in travelling & c during the progress of the building , as also his charge of Commission , together amounting to £388 13 8d of which he had received on account £100 , Whereupon the Committee were pleased to order the balance to be paid him . " |
| 17 | It was the capital of Greece , Athens , that first captivated his mind ; a very different place from the Decapolis of which he had written in ‘ The Song Of The Hellenist ’ , and light years away from the London from which he had fled . |
| 18 | In January this year it emerged that the sometime property dealer and owner of the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo was running late on payment to Sotheby 's for a Picasso and a de Kooning , both of which he had bought at auctions in New York the previous November . |
| 19 | Watching her , Trent recalled sailing towards what he had expected to be his death the previous morning on Golden Girl … his sense of deprivation , of having been robbed of his right to a normal life . |
| 20 | She had thought to do it in a civilised fashion , not confront him with her knowledge of what he had written about her , but he was persistent ; he could see his prize and her dollars slipping away . |
| 21 | This was indeed fortunate as it prevented him from revealing the fossilization of his mind by repeating much of what he had written in 1986 . |
| 22 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 23 | Tavett had been shaky but in the end unmoved : he added nothing and changed nothing of what he had said on Saturday . |
| 24 | It meant that Meredith Putt would not be going anywhere before the return of Superintending Constable Giles Aplin — and he would not come seeking Seb because of what he had witnessed on Handley Plain . |
| 25 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 26 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 27 | He sent her some of his notes of what he had seen in their walks and frequently let her see his ‘ papers ’ before they were copied out for the editors . |
| 28 | Delaney averted his gaze from her , afraid of what he had seen in her eyes . |
| 29 | But the memory of what he had done to the corpse was so painful Marek obliterated it from his mind . |
| 30 | Drowning the typewriter reminded him of what he had done to the remains of Ivor Newley . |