Example sentences of "[prep] then he have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Geach died in 1854 aged only 46 , but before then he had laid the foundations for the Midland 's meteoric expansion in the second half of the century . |
| 2 | The customer 's duty to take care of the goods ceases 21 days after he cancelled the agreement , unless before then he has received from the trader a written signed request to hand them over . |
| 3 | Until then he had done ‘ various things , ’ but ‘ nothing terribly special ’ — Eton , three months in Spain , the Army , six years as a conductor and driver on Brighton buses and a spell at Sainsbury 's , which was ‘ rather difficult ’ . |
| 4 | Until then he had suspected that the whole bizarre affair might have been kept under wraps by Morton and his cronies in the secret services , to see how it turned out . |
| 5 | Until then he had thought of her as sulky , even wilful , and had in truth been no more anxious for the match than she . |
| 6 | Until then he 'd denied being the gunman , but today pleaded guilty to the shootting . |
| 7 | Since then he had attended a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party at which he , the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary had spoken . |
| 8 | Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . ) |
| 9 | Sunday had been wonderful , a lovely warm , lazy day , but since then he had treated her as just another member of the team , being quite natural and friendly and polite , but without any hint of intimacy . |
| 10 | Since then he had survived a whole series of setbacks . |
| 11 | Since then he had gained insight into himself , and into a woman 's heart . |
| 12 | Since then he had succumbed to sporadic drinking binges . |
| 13 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |
| 14 | Since then he had run a foreign policy unit in Moscow , and had helped found the Democratic Reform Movement , which had attempted to unite democratic groups in opposition to the Communist Party [ see p. 38347 ] . |
| 15 | Since then he had tried to stay away from her , and it seemed she was doing the same , which did nothing to cool his interest . |
| 16 | His wife left him — and I do n't blame her — but apparently since then he 's gone off women . ’ |
| 17 | Since then he 's had to live through his first wife being run over and his second screen love , unconvincing animal righter and hippie chick Kerry Bishop , being shot dead by illegal duck hunters . |
| 18 | Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening . |
| 19 | Since then he has operated from various locations and in 1979 was appointed barley buyer for the north of England , based at Knapton . |
| 20 | Since then he has campaigned for improvements in farm animal welfare . |
| 21 | While unpacking , he found a chess set ; his father explained some of the moves , and since then he has gone from strength to strength despite the fact that the family has no chess background . |
| 22 | Since then he has fulfilled many ambitions , learned new skills and tested his courage and physical fitness to the limit . |
| 23 | Since then he has turned in some useful performances for the under-21 and England B sides but he has some way to go before becoming a player of real international class . |
| 24 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 25 | He was ordained to St Paul 's Mobile Church Society in 1987 and since then he has gathered a flock of more than 2,000 pensioners in the region . |
| 26 | In 1978 he co-founded Raw , a comic book for sophisticated adults , and in the years since then he has explored every nuance of the form . |
| 27 | Since then he has played singles while Stephen Shaw , Andrew Castle , Richard Whichello , Chris Bailey , Danny Sapsford , Nick Brown and Mark Petchey have all been tried and Bates has also paired up with Shaw , Castle , Brown and Colin Dowdeswell in the doubles . |
| 28 | Since then he has played with a succession of famous names in rock history , including Joe Cocker , Tim Hinkley , Frankie Miller , Roy Harper , Paul McCartney , Ronnie Lane etc . |
| 29 | Since then he has spent , in total , several hours in persuading people to climb into cupboards , clamber into lofts and crawl under stairs and watch carefully as he breaks peppermints in the gloom . |
| 30 | Since then he has spent his time equally divided between Belfast and a home he has in the south of France . |