Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] he have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 None of the agencies involved in the official investigation of the Flight 103 bombing , either British or American , had even attempted to question him about the activities he had observed on Cyprus , despite all the rumours of the DEA 's involvement .
2 We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood .
3 For the labourers he had produced , on a twenty-seven by twenty-four-foot ground plan , a unit containing a lobby , living room , scullery , indoor w.c. , and one large and two small bedrooms .
4 The pebbles he has thrown have shown these things .
5 She tried to convince herself he was still there — smirking at the sight of her in the ropes he 'd tied to her naked body .
6 Coleman had gone up on the roof the previous evening for one of his periodic checks of the antennae he had rigged for the listening post .
7 He has lost count of the clubs he has helped , buying their entire ticket alloca-tion .
8 Those four little letters could cost Hardee more than the walkouts he has grown used to .
9 The desire for his total understanding was the bright song of a chanticleer to greet the longed-for dawn ; she had no idea that the longing had been seeded amongst the far-flung auroras of the meanings he had programmed into her magic box .
10 The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised .
11 From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge .
12 Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there .
13 These ideas and some of the interactions he has mentioned do not , Anthony hastened to add , apply across all of C&P yet .
14 And there were all the other women he 'd made lucky too — all the hairdressers he 'd flirted with , all the travel agents , florists and girls in bars .
15 The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault .
16 An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’
17 His coming displayed no jot of his inner feelings , though his heart sank at the array of knee breeches and crinolines , and at last it occurred to him that the lunatics he had met upstairs were in Dickensian dress .
18 The legal question here is quite straightforward : the testator makes a bequest to his debtor , Gaius Seius , of all that Seius has borrowed from him as well as all the debts he has guaranteed for Seius .
19 Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden .
20 There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case .
21 In her late teens Ginny had surreptitiously investigated the notes he had made .
22 His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks .
23 Most of the houses he had seen were drab , workmen 's dwellings , but here on the periphery was an attractive tree-lined road which bespoke money , and plenty of it .
24 He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago .
25 When at last he could return to the plans he had left incomplete in 1102 , he seems to have recognized that he had attempted too much .
26 Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers .
27 But in December , Shaughnessy was astonished to learn that the subpoenas he had served on seven Federal agencies ( the DIA had been added to the others in March 1990 ) had been quashed without further hearing of argument .
28 At the end of 1777 de Broglie submitted to King Louis XVI an improved version of the proposals he had drafted 12 years before while at about the same time a new figure appeared on the scene , the 39-year-old Edward Dumouriez , an able army officer who had caught the eye of the king and been appointed Commandant of Cherbourg .
29 Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made .
30 She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime .
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