Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pascoe realized he 'd spoken in a whisper . |
| 2 | At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street . |
| 3 | Corbett remembered he had heard of this type of man , an ‘ Albus ’ , an all-white man or albino . |
| 4 | Coun Rees said he had learned of several villagers who were not fully insured . |
| 5 | Lord Taylor said medical reports on Newton stated he had acted under acute stress while his emotional control and judgment were impaired and he was overcome by extreme anxiety and anger . |
| 6 | Grant sensed he had succeeded in needling his opponent and tensed himself in readiness . |
| 7 | Fletcher said he had spoken to Graham Gooch during the past week but that Gooch was still insistent that he would not be rushed into a decision about the England captaincy . |
| 8 | Lord Romsey revealed he had argued against the Tomlinson Report , which recommends closure , over dinner with Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley last week . |
| 9 | D'Aubigny sensed he had triumphed in this repartee and stood up , smiling kindly at us . |
| 10 | Mr Drury said he had written to parents several times to be more considerate and not park directly outside the school . |
| 11 | Norman Lamont said he had accounted for tax levels imposed on other kinds of gambling and the extent to which the lottery , which is to begin next year , would reduce spending on other types of gambling . |
| 12 | Samuel Reichmann , the father of the multi-billionaire sons , had done what Klein said he had done in Tangier . |
| 13 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 14 | Reacher confirmed he had thought about possible replacements for Clough , and he admitted the job would probably go to a Forest insider . |
| 15 | Britannia said he had asked for permission to see the flight deck and apparently made the threat while casually chatting to the captain . |
| 16 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 17 | New skipper Richardson said he had heard of McDermott 's allegations but repeated his desire that the series , unlike the previous clash between the two teams , be played in good spirit . |
| 18 | Lawrence said he had sympathised with record signing Andy Payton , who has been in and out of the side since his move from Hull . |
| 19 | Mr Milburn said he had spoken to an 81-year-old lady from Harrowgate Hill who has got steadily more blind while waiting two years for treatment for cataracts . |
| 20 | Abruptly he sat up , away from her , and Leith knew he had gone off any idea of making love to her . |
| 21 | Mr MacKinlay said he had heard of the existence of a list of services , some of which appeared in The Observer newspaper yesterday . |
| 22 | In announcing the large fines for conspiracy to steal , Judge Brooks said he had listened to the account given to the court of the information given to the police by both defendants about how they had committed the fraud and had put some of the proceeds in foreign bank accounts . |
| 23 | Mr Lawson denied he had acted as if sterling was a full member of the EMS , but his decision to hold the pound above DM3 with higher base rates was seen by several analysts as just that . |
| 24 | During the latest six-day adjournment — to allow two witnesses to be called from abroad — Mr Ward said he had written to Mr Rowland on 31 January , asking for his help and recounting details of his daughter 's death . |
| 25 | Mr Usta said he had come to London under the impression that his kidney was to be donated to one of the ‘ broker ’ brothers , Ata Nur Kuntar . |
| 26 | In the witness box , Steventon-Rogers claimed he had gone to the shed unarmed and grabbed the knife from a work bench when Mr Smith became angry and attacked him . |
| 27 | Karelius thought he had heard of their champion , but could not recall the name . |
| 28 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 29 | Mr Connolly said he had written to Mr Clarke saying he very much hoped Labour 's commitment to the retention of water services under local government control extended to returning those services to councils ‘ in the unhappy event of any form of privatisation or transfer to some hybrid organisation ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Fallon said he had talked to the longest serving officials in his department who said the expansion rule had been in place as long as they had been there . |