Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 2 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 3 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 4 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 5 | And him always bumming on to Derek about how he 'd taped the whole of Brideshead Revisited . |
| 6 | How he 'd eaten the cake to the very last crumb , |
| 7 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 8 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 9 | Tony also mentioned how he had visited a local centre for the young unemployed which he had seen advertised in the local newspaper . |
| 10 | As it was , she forced down her sense of humour and began to explain what Joe had done , how he had blocked the holes and netted the gate and chased the hare out with Ferry . |
| 11 | Miss Trimm had talked about her son as an infant , how he had blessed the fishermen on Dynmouth Pier , how he had emerged from her womb without pain . |
| 12 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 13 | Not a man on board could guess how he had killed the others . |
| 14 | Basking in this praise , he went into considerable technical detail about how he had achieved the effect . |
| 15 | Asked how he had beaten the march of time Willis , 37 , would only say : ‘ Tricks of the trade . ’ |
| 16 | It was Fleury who , remembering how he had made a visor for his smoking cap , found the solution by whipping his Bible out of his shirt and tearing the boards off . |
| 17 | A few weeks later , he also reported with some amusement how he had involved a colleague ( not a member of the group ) in discussion about another pupil when he had caught both himself and his colleague ‘ fixing ’ the child inadvertently in his bad behaviour . |
| 18 | He said how he had noticed the barometer as he passed through the sitting-room on his way to the kitchen where the meters were . |
| 19 | He tried to give talks on how he had prepared the plan , captured the Bookman and what he hoped to learn from him , but nobody paid any attention . |
| 20 | Jack describes how ‘ London Bach ’ had written pieces for his uncle and how he had searched the papers of the copyist for the originals . |
| 21 | In 1940 , Joyce recalled how he had attended a pre-war dinner of English historians , at which the ‘ fifth-rate ’ G. P. Gooch ‘ assured his frightened colleagues that Hitler would amount to nothing … . |
| 22 | Since Rhodes she had known ( since he told her ) how he had met the Flemish woman in Lindos ; and had equally known ( although he had not told her ) that Katelina van Borselen had somehow been persuaded or forced into commerce with him . |
| 23 | The farmer explained how he had met the tiger and how , to save his oxen , he had promised the cow in exchange . |
| 24 | Frank sat down again and launched into a tale of how he had outwitted the guards at every turn and been the mainstay of the prisoners . |
| 25 | Quickly , in as few words as possible , Jack told him what had happened with the Glory , how he had seen the gigantic Worm break through the earth , and how both Tina and his mother had denied all knowledge of what they had seen . |
| 26 | Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign . |
| 27 | All he had to do now was to let Mr Hogan know how distressed Mrs Hogan was and how he had saved the day . |
| 28 | Was that how he had developed the deep tan that made him look somehow so vital ? |
| 29 | He had long forgotten how he had despised the old man for being mean and ignorant . |
| 30 | Eventually I asked him how he had become a Christian and why he had believed , and then asked him how he would answer some of the questions that his visit to a French university was bound to raise . |