Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] he have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July Higgins had been accused of " compromising national security " in an article about a crackdown on nationalists in Nei Mongol province ( Inner Mongolia ) , based on an internal party document which the Foreign Ministry claimed he had obtained " illegally " . |
| 2 | At night , at certain seasons , it glowed like fire , sometimes it seemed but the portal of a well-lighted hall ; and one old stone-breaker declared he had heard wonderful music issuing therefrom , the like of which he had never heard before ; while on one occasion he had seen troops of gaily-dressed elfins repairing thither , some on foot and some in carriages , and they all went into this mysterious hall . |
| 3 | A British microbiologist claims he has found a means of using bacteria to dispose of human sewage . |
| 4 | Commander Abigail was not a heavy drinker , but after his gloomy morning walk he had felt the need of consolation and had found it in the Disraeli Lounge of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 5 | So under the surface of the thick glass lay a mass of long gold threads , filling in the whole cavity of the box with their turns and tumbles , so that at first the little tailor thought he had come upon a box full of spun gold , to make cloth of gold . |
| 6 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 7 | Especially rich in irony is Le Prestre et Alison , " The Priest and Alison " , in which a lecherous priest believes he has succeeded in bedding a beautiful young girl but has had , in the darkness , an elderly whore substituted for her . |
| 8 | She knew Eddie 's gambling had had disastrous consequences for her family , but it had been a terrible shock to discover he had taken so much from his best friend as well . |
| 9 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 10 | One Manchester United fan insisted he 'd seen very few disturbances . |
| 11 | McGown , 56 , was arrested after a parliamentary select committee reported he had admitted to having ‘ undertaken experiments without following laid down procedures to discover new ways of managing pain ’ . |
| 12 | The Resident Magistrate said he had considered the matter of compensation but had decided not to award compensation . |
| 13 | ‘ But the other , the man , the forensic pathologist thought he 'd died from the effects of nerve gas . ’ |
| 14 | The Sergeant 's deepening frown showed he 'd reached his limit of forbearance . |
| 15 | When the peat-brown eyes fixed on hers again , their level gaze showed he had recovered from his astonishment at seeing her . |
| 16 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 17 | The new dealer thought he had hit the jackpot . |
| 18 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 19 | One Colombian film , which used non-professional actors to portray the lives of Medellin street kids , was so faithful to local speech patterns that one Argentine cinema-goer confessed he had understood a mere 10% of the dialogue . |