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

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1 It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly .
2 Britton looking battle-weary after a match in which he was left as Thistle 's lone attacker , a task which he confessed he had never experienced before , admitted he had a fair bit of work to do as a result .
3 ‘ So … so I 'll send them , shall I ? ’ she asked , holding her breath , bracing herself , waiting for the blunt , ‘ You do that ! ’ the violent , ‘ Go to Hell ! ’ the indifferent dismissal , or , even worse , the continuing silence which meant he had really hung up on her .
4 For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world .
5 Ross knew he had already waited too long , but he continued to look through the scope , hoping for a clean shot at his chosen mark .
6 ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down .
7 ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour .
8 The one time North thought He had really come through ( ’ Thank God — He answers prayers ’ ) , was a cruel tease .
9 But Mr Ben Ali said he had already done enough for them .
10 Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast .
11 Mr Lawson said he had always played straight with people , which was why the Government was so respected , ‘ even if it is not always loved by all the people ’ .
12 Hnatiuk at the bank said he 's always had quite a good balance in his savings account — for a kid — and he 's deposited quite a bit of money recently .
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