Example sentences of "[num] he have [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 2 | By the time he was 30 he had sailed to Iceland and West Africa . |
| 3 | We know that Lethieullier was also interested in anatomy , for in 1734 he had offered to the Royal Society three infants preserved in spirit , ‘ … of which one Elizabeth Baggs , a hard labouring woman in Oxford , was delivered at one birth in 1714 ’ and who lived for but a few hours afterwards . |
| 4 | In June 1940 he had risen to a position of leadership as a result of extraordinary circumstances , to a degree by default ( because better-known people had either rallied to Pétain or done nothing ) , and certainly without having served a normal political apprenticeship . |
| 5 | At his favourite monastery of Grandmont , where in 1170 he had wanted to be buried , he met Count Audebert of La Marche . |
| 6 | By 1252 he had come to England , married Maud de Lacy , and as co-heir to the Lacy inheritance received some of their Irish lands . |
| 7 | At the time of his mother 's death in 1582 he had drifted to France to join other exiled English Catholics at Douai . |
| 8 | Although in 1962 he had appealed to the Government of Ireland Act , in 1963 he described it as a ‘ constitution of bondage ’ . |
| 9 | By the age of ten he had taken to dreamily wandering around areas of Stretford and Hulme not normally reserved for the vision of one so young . |
| 10 | In 1845 he had written to a friend : |
| 11 | By 1986 he had reverted to freelancing on several national newspapers and magazines before joining the newly launched Independent as rock critic . |
| 12 | By 1935 he had returned to England and in the following year married an actress , eight years older than himself , Elsie Elizabeth Mary Gott , a marriage celebrated , since he had been baptized into the Roman Catholic Church , in St James 's , Spanish Place . |
| 13 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 14 | He remembered , from the one or two he 'd gone to with her , that she was in the habit of pocketing things and crunching large handfuls of crisps . |
| 15 | By 1696 he had moved to Pall Mall , near to the court . |
| 16 | Already in July 1945 he had written to Hanns ‘ I want sooooooo badly to get to London . |
| 17 | Although an Exeter weaver could still make 9s ( 45p ) a week in 1750 , a level still persisting in nearby Taunton in 1764 , by 1787 he had fallen to 8s ( 40p ) and to 7s ( 35p ) by 1791 . |
| 18 | In November 1868 he had written to Rohde : " I intend to get through all the business of habilitation by Easter [ sc . |
| 19 | Away goes David Lawrence the start of the fifty-ninth over of this innings , a hundred and thirty-eight for four he 's bowled to short outside the off stump , he lets that go through to Russell . |
| 20 | In 1915 he had sailed to South America on one of the last square-riggers . |
| 21 | By 1905 he had moved to St Petersburg where his growing reputation as a miraculous healer brought him to the attention of the Czar and Czarina . |