Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] he have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 2 | Peter had begun to study it on Sunday , chiefly to discover what he had had to say about Abbotsfield . |
| 3 | In his province , Huy remembered , Surere had tried to impose what he had interpreted as the supporting columns of a decent society : sexual responsibility and even monogamy were held to be the roots of a stable family ; sexual relations between members of that family were restricted to cousins . |
| 4 | It ordered Edward to destroy what he has laboured so hard to create , and restore the narrow strip of land to its original condition within 28 days and close a gateway onto the road . |
| 5 | Robyn screwed up her brow and tried to remember what he had said his other name was . |
| 6 | The range of Iain 's reading was a constant surprise to me , and he had that rare ability to remember what he had read so that he could pass it on . |
| 7 | She tried to remember what he had told her , some kind of business , something unmemorable , like selling software . |
| 8 | It 's interesting to wonder what he 's won . |
| 9 | And I do n't know which has nagged at me most , the lack of courage shown by this brave man in fending me off and declining to discuss what he had done , or my lack of courage in declining to write about it . |
| 10 | It was all she needed to strengthen what he had told her — that Maria Luisa was not in his heart . |
| 11 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 12 | And it would amuse the Colonel to hear what he had done to the President 's elite guard . |
| 13 | And Jesus had n't stopped speaking , but even as he 's saying that the these people are gathering around him , the tax gatherers , the sinners , the undesirables of society , they 're gathering around him to hear what he 's got to say . |
| 14 | It is possible that he did kill , but having killed , took thought to cover what he had done . |
| 15 | He shook his head as if trying to deny what he had heard . |
| 16 | She wanted to scream and shout , to deny what he had said , but she knew it was no use . |
| 17 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 18 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 19 | And Len had witnessed his reaction and this had prompted Len to do what he had said he would n't do again , and that was to try and persuade him to accompany him home . |
| 20 | He had been in the city for three weeks now and he had not even started to do what he had come here for . |
| 21 | Instead , he felt only a strong desire to bring the whole thing to a finish … to do what he had come to do , risking life and limb in the process . |
| 22 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 23 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 24 | Fairley was said to be ‘ merely carrying out repetitive actions , trying to imitate what he had seen on the video screen ’ . |
| 25 | He had come to Addis Ababa as correspondent for the Graphic and he later made use of the occasion to parody what he had seen in Black Mischief and other books . |
| 26 | But there was no attempt to disguise what he had seen . |
| 27 | He had played his cassettes to her and she had begun to understand what he had lost . |
| 28 | The letter-by-letter reader will usually be able to write a passage well , and then be unable to read what he has written . |
| 29 | And what makes his analysis so attractive is the fact that he has resolutely turned his back on the temptations to reduce what he has seen to some supposedly more fundamental principle of animal behaviour . |
| 30 | The point is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that Actaeon is not free to narrate what he has seen , but Ovid is . |