Example sentences of "the [noun pl] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the agencies involved in the official investigation of the Flight 103 bombing , either British or American , had even attempted to question him about the activities he had observed on Cyprus , despite all the rumours of the DEA 's involvement . |
| 2 | She tried to convince herself he was still there — smirking at the sight of her in the ropes he 'd tied to her naked body . |
| 3 | Coleman had gone up on the roof the previous evening for one of his periodic checks of the antennae he had rigged for the listening post . |
| 4 | The desire for his total understanding was the bright song of a chanticleer to greet the longed-for dawn ; she had no idea that the longing had been seeded amongst the far-flung auroras of the meanings he had programmed into her magic box . |
| 5 | The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised . |
| 6 | From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge . |
| 7 | And there were all the other women he 'd made lucky too — all the hairdressers he 'd flirted with , all the travel agents , florists and girls in bars . |
| 8 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 9 | An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’ |
| 10 | The legal question here is quite straightforward : the testator makes a bequest to his debtor , Gaius Seius , of all that Seius has borrowed from him as well as all the debts he has guaranteed for Seius . |
| 11 | Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden . |
| 12 | There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case . |
| 13 | But in December , Shaughnessy was astonished to learn that the subpoenas he had served on seven Federal agencies ( the DIA had been added to the others in March 1990 ) had been quashed without further hearing of argument . |
| 14 | He reached for one of the sticks he 'd collected for the pheasant trap . |
| 15 | He had expected everybody to abide by the rules he had applied to his own life . |
| 16 | Estabrook watched the smoke drift up over the assassin 's grey eyes , and before he could prevent himself he was telling his story , the rules he 'd drawn for this exchange forgotten . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , quite a lot , ’ said Jean , who found it rather hard to explain the number of duels , pursuits on horseback , quick changes of identity and narrow escapes from the authorities he had experienced by the age of twenty-four . |
| 18 | Suspicion of the king lingered on after the conclusion of the parliament of 1341 , and was probably intensified by his solemn revocation of the concessions he had made in that parliament at a council attended by all the magnates in early October 1341 . |
| 19 | Robert , at a loss , went on a drinking spree in which he spent most of the savings he had accumulated during his first few months in the new country . |
| 20 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 21 | He went to Sacramento with no readymade staff ; he had no understanding of how the political system worked and had no strategy for translating the goals he had espoused during the campaign into a programme of practical proposals . |
| 22 | At the end of the negotiations , as he prepared to run off to salvage what he could from the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Nicaragua , North told the Iranians he had failed in his mission ‘ to start the process of healing between our countries ’ ; the two nations , Iran and America , were about to pass each other like ships in the night . |
| 23 | He would be ever hereafter his own successor in developing sequels to the steps he had taken in the spring and summer of 1837 . |
| 24 | He had felt distress and pity for the sufferings he had seen about him , but they had not struck home to his heart as seeing McAllister brought so low had done . |
| 25 | ‘ Pah , nothing 's left from the previous existence — only the mere lees and dregs of thought , dreams of past time that the creature does not heed , or not half as much as the figments he has derived from Milton ! |
| 26 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 27 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 28 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 29 | Erm I mean he he he 's bought , I mean the presents he 's bought to be honest I mean I think oh my god what a waste . |
| 30 | She walked round the room , looking at the fragments he 'd preserved from their life together . |