Example sentences of "[adj] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this he had concluded from a rather wistful statement that she was missing him . |
| 2 | Even before this he had lingered in her mind , seeming to be calling her from France after that one meeting . |
| 3 | This he had turned into what looked like a camera shop and I let him get well ahead before starting my take-off . |
| 4 | But even this he had learned to discipline . |
| 5 | This he had learnt from Ann herself , who had forecast the sex of both babies by means of a golden ring suspended by the longest whisker of a white cat . |
| 6 | When Parker got up he told his audience that as he had heard this he had thought to himself , ‘ I will turn aside and see this great sight ’ . |
| 7 | The greater the longing he felt for her the more sensible he had tried to be . |
| 8 | His representative told a London tribunal it was now clear he had consented to medical retirement . |
| 9 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 10 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 11 | The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age . |
| 12 | She wondered whether it were conceivable he had forgotten about it . |
| 13 | By the time he was 30 he had sailed to Iceland and West Africa . |
| 14 | By 1202 he had accepted from William Brewer an offer of a fine of 500 marks for the marriage of the daughter and heiress of Hugh of Morville , late hereditary warden of Inglewood forest , with his son Richard or his nephew Richard Gernon , and for having Hugh 's forest wardenship on the same terms . |
| 15 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 16 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 17 | In 1991 he had resigned as a member of the FLN 's central committee in order to stand as an independent candidate in the abortive general election of December 1991 . |
| 18 | When Ras Tafari had paid his State Visit to London in 1924 he had brought with him several important chiefs , among them Ras Hailu of Gojjam and Ras Seyum of Tigre , the grandson of the Emperor John , all of whom he suspected might make trouble if he left them behind . |
| 19 | ‘ I am delighted he has agreed to the council 's request and sees the need for urgency , ’ he said . |
| 20 | He could see men coming away now , too , from where the ships had been put : the first job , and the heaviest he had shared with his father . |
| 21 | He even handed over his B&B passbook once and asked how much he 'd got in it . |
| 22 | She wondered how much he had drunk to be explaining the trials of the journalist to her . |
| 23 | But when I got to be twenty-one , I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years . |
| 24 | Li Yuan looked back at his father , conscious of how much he had aged in the years between . |
| 25 | It was four years since they had parted , and who knew how much he had changed during that time ? |
| 26 | And how old he is , what he does for a living , how much he 's got in the bank — and probably whether he 's twice divorced with a string of children tucked away somewhere . ’ |
| 27 | Now , a number of years later , I have seen some of God 's plans for them come about and realize how much he has cared for them and kept them safe . |
| 28 | I think the critical point is how much he has lost in pace and whether those other attributes are in decline . |
| 29 | I felt myself blush and I gritted my teeth , glad he had retreated behind the glossy pages . |
| 30 | I was glad he had spoken as if he wanted to , but I felt I should apologize , once they had gone . |