Example sentences of "[pron] he have [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He felt he was being particularly generous offering marriage to someone he had not yet met .
2 Michael Swinton watched her in silence as he had watched her before , only proffering as he had done once before a handkerchief which he had plainly also used as a paint rag .
3 The right which he had most clearly in mind was his claim to the French crown , which he asserted formally in his renunciation of homage three months later .
4 Neither writer gave McQueen the credit of his own history ; neither enquired into , or assessed , the status he might have had before the ‘ 45 Rebellion , in which he had participated , and by which he had most likely been reduced to keeping this crude but hospitable inn .
5 The exhibition Ladislav wanted me to see and which he had not yet seen himself , was a series of documents and photographs relating to the events of 1968 , none of which had been made public before .
6 Then with an energy which he had not yet displayed he took hold of Patrick .
7 He thought of her , and thought at the same time of Oxford ; and remembered , with sudden guilt , the letter from his mother , which he had not yet read .
8 With suppressed excitement and relief at the possibility of preoccupation , he told the Foreign Secretary that the crisis of the monarchy was upon them , that he ( Eden ) must go and read his own overseas correspondence on the subject ( which he had not apparently hitherto done ) , and that he must not trouble him ( Baldwin ) too much with foreign affairs just now .
9 The manuscript books with their red bindings which he had not actually seen .
10 It seemed that he had undeservedly passed an examination which he had n't even known he was taking .
11 Her red hair was a beacon in the night — a flame in which he had long since been charred .
12 And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings .
13 Michael Banks , who by this time looked terminally tired , seemed to have lost the knack of timing which he had so laboriously achieved the day before , and so his lines were once again all over the place .
14 That the dominions which he had so laboriously assembled fragmented upon his death ( indeed , his position in Norway had collapsed before it ) is a pointer to Cnut 's abilities , and of how individual , and hence transitory , political achievement could be .
15 The proof of this is to be found in the calendar of saints ' days for the Canterbury community which he had so offensively purged .
16 He died at eighty , after a full span of the retired leisure for which he had so frequently sighed , both publicly and privately .
17 ‘ Looks promising , ’ he agreed , turning to speak to the waiter , who had arrived to brandish a bottle of the red wine which he had so enthusiastically recommended .
18 The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) .
19 His restless mind had returned to the unfinished business of Benghazi and the possibility of destroying shipping which he had so far signally failed to achieve .
20 That night he prayed devoutly that he might be upheld in the purity which he had so far , maintained , in spite of the temptations and evil example which encompassed him on all sides .
21 The monthly Civil Engineer and Architects Journal , in its March edition , said that Hall was ‘ indulging the weakness of feeling annoyed that the scheme on which he had so greatly and justly plumed himself should fall into the hands of his successor ’ .
22 The first-generation immigrant , however zealously he or she tried to learn the techniques of the new life , lived in a self-imposed ghetto , drawing support from the old ways , the men of his kind , the memories of the old country which he had so readily abandoned .
23 Miss D'Arcy was with Mrs Moore in the parlour in which he had so recently talked with the Colonel .
24 He let his hands travel up beneath the chemise to her breasts , which he had so often coveted , and handled them boldly .
25 He had been forced to make the move ‘ from the safe haven of the monastery to the tumultuous and wreck-strewn storms of the world ’ , against which he had so often cautioned others ; and there was no release in sight .
26 As prime minister from April and with a general election to be fought , he now pressed arguments which he had so often criticized when urged by Churchill .
27 These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory .
28 He goes to work abroad for Herbert , in the firm in which he had earlier secretly bought his friend a partnership , and returns after many years , meeting Estella , who had been wretchedly married to Bentley Drummle and who is now widowed , in the ruins of Miss Havisham 's house .
29 It is obviously difficult for a parent to help a child through a developmental hurdle which he has not properly encompassed himself , but parents and children can grow up together , or , as we might say , children can bring up their parents .
30 A woman may know what a man 's intentions are towards her , long before he does himself , and can ‘ pick up ’ emotional inclinations which he has not yet recognized .
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