Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] he have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 2 | After that he 'd spent a lot of time with Jekub , poking around , finding out about it . |
| 3 | After that he had worried about nothing at all . |
| 4 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |
| 5 | If he says stand on your head you will , but after that he 's got to do it all by persuasion . |
| 6 | As soon as he started to tear the paper off I had a wild desire to snatch it back , rush out and buy him a record-player ; it seemed such a ludicrously inadequate present after all he 'd done for me . |
| 7 | I cried my eyes out , I felt so lost and lonely , he could n't do this to me , not after all he 'd said . |
| 8 | It was cruel that he had to die so soon after all he had suffered ; it would have been more cruel if he had died alone , in the dark , knowing that rescue was at hand ; at least he knew the relief of the rescue and died in the comfort of his own bed . |
| 9 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 10 | He bristled , suddenly angered that she could think this of him , after all he had done to purify himself for her . |
| 11 | Dear God , why should she still find him so disturbing after all he had done to her ? |
| 12 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 13 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 14 | So after two he 's gone two hundred . |
| 15 | Despite that he has managed to keep a group of people around him who have a loyalty both to him and to the company . ’ |
| 16 | At the age of eleven he had driven a herd of Welsh ponies up to the West Riding , for use as pit ponies in the mines . |
| 17 | At the end of 1866 he had asked the Governors for a testimonial , as he was applying for a post in the Midlands : |
| 18 | By the end of 1933 he had spent only $113 million and provided jobs for about one million . |
| 19 | And because of this he has paid the price for my sins and your sins . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 22 | ‘ Though he is famous for the extension of his territories and conquests in which he is constantly engaged , he has also started many public works for the beauty and convenience of the realm ; some of these he has completed , and a great part of his wealth is set aside for pious honouring of his ancestors . |
| 23 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 24 | In the civil war of 324 he had represented his military campaign as a crusade against a corrupt paganism . |
| 25 | By April of 1824 he had failed to abate the nuisance , and it was decided to present him with a formal notice to desist . |
| 26 | It was probable that he had not , and best in any case not to go near ; soon he would miss her , want her back , and perhaps give his permission for the marriage despite all he had said to the contrary . |
| 27 | It seemed to her that , despite all he had done , Ursula might have spared him a word or gesture of encouragement . |
| 28 | Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do . |
| 29 | He felt drained , absolutely shattered by the enormity of all he had learned . |
| 30 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |