Example sentences of "[adj] he have [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before this he had lingered in her mind , seeming to be calling her from France after that one meeting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He even handed over his B&B passbook once and asked how much he 'd got in it . |
| 4 | But when I got to be twenty-one , I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years . |
| 5 | Li Yuan looked back at his father , conscious of how much he had aged in the years between . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I think the critical point is how much he has lost in pace and whether those other attributes are in decline . |
| 8 | By 1917 he had succeeded in breaking much of the German admirals ' flag code , detecting , with his ear for metre , lines of poetry in the repeated bigrams of a message , which provided a crib . |
| 9 | Yes , it is a bad winter , the worst he has seen in sixty-five years of herding reindeer here . |
| 10 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 11 | On one occasion ( 24 April 1947 ) de Gaulle retrospectively renamed the wartime Resistance the rassemblement du Peuple Français , as though all he had done in 1947 was capitalize it . |
| 12 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 13 | West wins this third Diamond trick with the Queen and all he has left in his hand are 3 Hearts , and whatever card he plays he must give you the last three tricks in that suit . |
| 14 | Since 1981 he has lived in Paris and this is his first ‘ French ’ novel , set in a fashionable Parisian intellectual world where the principal characters sit a health club discussing this and that , with the author , from time to time , joining in . |
| 15 | By January 1930 he had arrived in Hong Kong where he established the Vietnamese Communist Party which soon merged into the Indo-China Communist party or Dong Duong Cong-San Dang . |
| 16 | He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly . |
| 17 | On return to his Californian studio , he determined to make a Centipede just like those he had seen in his travels . |
| 18 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 19 | He introduced new main-line and suburban passenger and freight locomotives developed from those he had designed in Scotland , which gave excellent results and had similarly elegant outlines , although his later and more powerful 4–6–0 type locomotives were less successful . |
| 20 | Warne 's wonder ball was all the more special because it was the first he had bowled in an Ashes contest . |
| 21 | For the first time , Nuadu caught the briefest hint of discomposure from the necromancer and knew that by remaining calm and apparently indifferent he had succeeded in disconcerting the Robemaker a little . |
| 22 | By 1829 he had succeeded in bringing together most of the country 's cotton-spinners into the Grand General Union of Operative Cotton Spinners , and , although it had disappeared by 1831 , it was an important stage in the heightening of class-consciousness among certain groups of working people . |
| 23 | Promoter Andy Norman is hailing the line-up at the National Indoor Arena as the finest he has assembled in 20 years — and the best anywhere in the world this winter . |
| 24 | It is tragic he has lost in Bath . |
| 25 | In the accompanying chairman 's statement , John Partridge said that the market for the year covered had been one the of the most difficult he had seen in thirty years of heading the company , with a particularly poor level of sales in the early summer months . |
| 26 | By the age of twenty-nine he had appeared in two of the most successful films of all time and had won an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl . |
| 27 | Since 1956 he has lived in France . |
| 28 | Very soon , however , his natural good looks were recognized by a film producer , and by 1919 he had appeared in three short silent dramas , despite a casting card reading ‘ does not screen well ’ . |
| 29 | Pitt managed to collect only half of the £10 million he had anticipated in 1799 , but better results were to be achieved when Henry Addington took over the Treasury and reshaped the taxation of incomes in his budgets of 1803 and 1804 . |
| 30 | At the age of seven he had fallen in love with a schoolteacher like her . |