Example sentences of "[Wh det] he have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After hearing a terrible denunciation of practices in which he had willingly taken part in the past , we might have expected that he would have wished to have further clarifications before he left Rome , or that some plan of action would have been agreed . |
| 2 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 3 | Chatichai had turned down the leadership of the party to which he had formerly belonged , Chart Thai , on July 2 citing old age ( he was 70 ) and political reasons . |
| 4 | After an incident at Thaba Ntso on Feb. 12 , 1990 , in which three insurgents and a government soldier were killed , the leader of the Basotho Congress Party ( BCP ) , Ntsu Mokhehle , denied that his party was involved , adding that the Lesotho Liberation Army , a guerrilla force which he had formerly commanded , had been disbanded after its members had returned to Lesotho between December 1988 and February 1989 [ see p. 36677 ] . |
| 5 | As it was , he had been lifted out of the void in which he had barely existed , on to a plane that was real — he underlined it triumphantly . |
| 6 | This was not a botanic garden in the modern sense of the word , but an area in which Bartram grew and propagated his comprehensive collection of current American ornamental plants for which he had arduously searched in unexplored country . |
| 7 | President Guillermo Endara ended on March 13 a 13-day hunger strike which he had reportedly undertaken in solidarity with the most needy of Panamanians at a time of severe economic crisis . |
| 8 | Ludens had been disturbed by the strange conversation which he had lately had with Marcus , by Marcus 's emotion , and by his own . |
| 9 | Although baptized and buried in Anglican churches , his strongest links were with the Abney Congregational church , which he had largely financed . |
| 10 | Jane had once invited a bank manager to Christmas Eve drinks , which he had loftily declined . |
| 11 | As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Gundovald , a supposed son of Chlothar , who had been excluded from the succession in 561 , took advantage of the situation to revive his claim to the crown , which he had already asserted with Byzantine support in 582 . |
| 13 | He had added two new candidates , the Acanthiza ewingi and the Strepera arguta , to the list of native Tasmanian species , making a total of 12 , four of which he had already named from specimens sent to him before he left England , and had now succeeded in seeing all of these alive in their native habitat . |
| 14 | Throughout 1952 his major task was to finish the play which he had already begun . |
| 15 | On 10 October , having arranged a meeting , he wrote to me about the earlier essay for which he had already arranged generous advanced payment : |
| 16 | This practical middle aged surveyor with a wife and new baby left the relative security of surveying , at which he had already achieved some distinction ; turned his back on London and its opportunities , and took his chances as an artist in Ambleside . |
| 17 | But Simon had belatedly realised the trap into which he had already put a toe — and drew back . |
| 18 | Imminent retirement lay ahead after a career of almost sub-average distinction , in anticipation of which he had already bought a small house on the edge of St. Omer . |
| 19 | He pointed out a flat , tough door from which he had already removed the hinges and nails . |
| 20 | Mungo set off , taking care to avoid the loose floorboards which he had already tried to memorize . |
| 21 | He stayed a fortnight , and during that time dined memorably on honey pie , made an even more unfavourable impression at Marshmills , and no doubt spent long hours talking in Poole 's garden arbour , ‘ an Elysium ’ , as he called it , in which he had already recited many of his recent poems . |
| 22 | In addition to the $400 million which he had already paid into an SEC disgorgement fund , he was due to provide a further $500 million to be contributed in tranches over five years . |
| 23 | In January 1340 Edward formally assumed the title of king of France ( to which he had already laid claim in 1337 ) , perhaps to make his Flemish allies feel that they were legally entitled to help him oppose their traditional lord , the king of France . |
| 24 | The electricians appeared to accept the kind of binding agreements which he had vainly sought from the print unions . |
| 25 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 26 | As successful as the works on paper were , the crowds came for the paintings , particularly the late Braque ‘ Atelier VIII ’ , ( 1952–55 ) conceived by the artist as the summation of his career , and which he had fervently hoped would never leave France . |
| 27 | By withdrawing from the game he reveals the relativity and fragility of the play-world in which he had temporarily shut himself with others . |
| 28 | The immediate instinct of his audience was to acclaim , but there followed a swift reaction against his candidature , and the tactical advantage which he had seemingly tried to gain by such instant action fell right away . |
| 29 | To counter this , he was Taking the Side of the Other , using the national symbols of kingship , which he had previously derided . |
| 30 | It is no secret that Keynes was a highly intuitive thinker who often changed his mind : in 1930 he defended the gold standard , which he had previously attacked , and in 1931 he abandoned the principle of free trade , which he had previously upheld . |