Example sentences of "[verb] he have [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice to say that the young medic concerned must have wished he 'd picked on any person in the history of Equity rather than your hyper-ventilating authoress . |
| 2 | He claimed he had fallen on a bottle . |
| 3 | ‘ A break-in , is it , sir ? ’ asked the big one , tightening his black gloves like he 'd seen on television . |
| 4 | They might also have been superfluous because he was now saying he had succeeded on his own . |
| 5 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 6 | For an instant , startled by that snapping sound , he thought he had trodden on a twig . |
| 7 | But he followed closely behind her and presented himself to her mother with another of the staccato nods he had learned on the parade ground . |
| 8 | The jackal thinks he has feasted on the buffalo when in fact he has just eaten the eyes , entrails and testicles rejected by the lion . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Armstrong said : ‘ He made a statement to the police making no complaint against his wife but claiming he had fallen on a knife . ’ |
| 10 | As Caparo showed , there had to be a specific relationship between the function that the defendant was requested to perform and the transaction in relation to which the plaintiff said he had relied on proper performance . |
| 11 | But when Kenneth Bowler was treated at hospital and when he made a statement to the police he said he had fallen on a fishing knife when he was drunk . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't imagine he 'd bargained on finding you there either . ’ |
| 13 | He is telling it to go now look , you see he 's put on his lights . |