Example sentences of "[noun pl] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before an audience of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall , Harrison performed songs he had written over the past 25 years , and some Beatles classics . |
| 2 | ‘ Pah , nothing 's left from the previous existence — only the mere lees and dregs of thought , dreams of past time that the creature does not heed , or not half as much as the figments he has derived from Milton ! |
| 3 | He would be ever hereafter his own successor in developing sequels to the steps he had taken in the spring and summer of 1837 . |
| 4 | However , in deference to his friend 's Moslem susceptibilities he had stayed with coffee , and certainly Turkish coffee taken mazbout , sweetened , was perfectly to his taste . |
| 5 | She walked round the room , looking at the fragments he 'd preserved from their life together . |
| 6 | For two centuries he has stood between the Elves of Ulthuan and their many foes . |
| 7 | He went to Sacramento with no readymade staff ; he had no understanding of how the political system worked and had no strategy for translating the goals he had espoused during the campaign into a programme of practical proposals . |
| 8 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 9 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 10 | Erm I mean he he he 's bought , I mean the presents he 's bought to be honest I mean I think oh my god what a waste . |
| 11 | Those gruesome robots which had restrained the trio — and the Astropath — reminded Jaq so strongly of images he had viewed of traitor legionnaires , the polluted renegades spawned by the would-be Emperor-slayers of long ago who now lurked in a certain terrible , twisted zone of the galaxy … |
| 12 | He had felt distress and pity for the sufferings he had seen about him , but they had not struck home to his heart as seeing McAllister brought so low had done . |
| 13 | The wind blew down the tents of the other lads he had joined in camping on an apparently sheltered spot in a hollow above the sea . |
| 14 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 15 | He himself was only a little shy — and obviously very proud of the English words he 'd acquired in the few months since his arrival . |
| 16 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 17 | After the words he had written to her , it was churlish of her to avoid him , but she dreaded any interview because of what she must say . |
| 18 | Terrified to telephone and hear him say the words he had written on paper , she collapsed ultimately into a drunken stupor — a woman who had never previously drunk more than a half bottle of wine . |
| 19 | All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly . |
| 20 | The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive . |
| 21 | ‘ I just bet you have ! ’ she ground out , echoing the words he had used about her relationship with Tim Dunton earlier this morning . |
| 22 | I ask whether with the above words he has entrusted to Pamphilus that after his death he should make over a hundred to the sons of the deceased . |
| 23 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 24 | At the end of the negotiations , as he prepared to run off to salvage what he could from the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Nicaragua , North told the Iranians he had failed in his mission ‘ to start the process of healing between our countries ’ ; the two nations , Iran and America , were about to pass each other like ships in the night . |
| 25 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 26 | They were slanted somehow , and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu . |
| 27 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 28 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 29 | Robert , at a loss , went on a drinking spree in which he spent most of the savings he had accumulated during his first few months in the new country . |
| 30 | Some of the most original and beautiful designs he had seen in thirty years . |