Example sentences of "[det] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this he had concluded from a rather wistful statement that she was missing him . |
| 2 | Even before this he had lingered in her mind , seeming to be calling her from France after that one meeting . |
| 3 | This he had turned into what looked like a camera shop and I let him get well ahead before starting my take-off . |
| 4 | But even this he had learned to discipline . |
| 5 | This he had learnt from Ann herself , who had forecast the sex of both babies by means of a golden ring suspended by the longest whisker of a white cat . |
| 6 | When Parker got up he told his audience that as he had heard this he had thought to himself , ‘ I will turn aside and see this great sight ’ . |
| 7 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 8 | He even handed over his B&B passbook once and asked how much he 'd got in it . |
| 9 | She wondered how much he had drunk to be explaining the trials of the journalist to her . |
| 10 | But when I got to be twenty-one , I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years . |
| 11 | Li Yuan looked back at his father , conscious of how much he had aged in the years between . |
| 12 | It was four years since they had parted , and who knew how much he had changed during that time ? |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Now , a number of years later , I have seen some of God 's plans for them come about and realize how much he has cared for them and kept them safe . |
| 15 | I think the critical point is how much he has lost in pace and whether those other attributes are in decline . |
| 16 | She 'd tell her every single thing , all he 'd said about Commander Abigail and all about the bath and the wedding-dress and what he was saying now , about witnessing the accident . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All he 'd got for the mite was a tatty old kite |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All he had said at the interview , apart from ‘ I completely agree with you ’ and ‘ You are absolutely right , Headmaster ! ’ was ‘ Let's get this show on the road ! ’ |
| 21 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 22 | Mr Roberts was thanked for all he had done for the Society since its inception . |
| 23 | Dear God , why should she still find him so disturbing after all he had done to her ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He studied the draft of the report he had sent to Burnell and re-examined it , going over time and again all he had learnt since his arrival in Scotland . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He surrendered all he had fought for , accepting even the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and the existence of Purgatory . |
| 30 | ‘ To us he was throwing away all he had worked for . |