Example sentences of "[verb] he have [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have wished he had stayed at home . |
| 2 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 3 | The sight of them would be enough to give designers of air balls , gels and energy return systems the jitters , and although he has never measured his mileage , he estimated he had run at least 25,000 miles in them , and possibly more ! |
| 4 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 7 | He knew he had failed at so many things , but never as a teacher , never as that . |
| 8 | He reminded Riven a little of the Bicker he had known at the bothy . |
| 9 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think he has changed at all . |
| 11 | But I think he 's I do n't think he 's misformed at all . |
| 12 | Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard said he had shot at the assassin , but believed he had missed . |
| 13 | The opposition press also said he 'd pupped at least five children . |