Example sentences of "he have dreamed of " in BNC.

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1 I was everything he 'd dreamed of .
2 As far back as 1925 , he had dreamed of a complete history of the love allegory from Ovid to Spenser , and by 1928 two chapters of a more modest scheme , starting with the Provençal troubadours , were finished .
3 He was a literary man and he had dreamed of becoming the Shakespeare of the movies , but what he had become in fact was more like a movie version of Dickens .
4 How could the God-Emperor have sanctioned such a plan , if the human race were ever to achieve the destiny he had dreamed of for it ?
5 Copernicus , on the left , raises the possibility of the earth 's motion , Galileo produces his telescope , and Kepler expresses a desire for wings that he might visit the new world — as indeed he had dreamed of doing in his unpublished Copernican text Somnium .
6 But the past , not the future , now claimed him : on this same trip to New York , he told William Turner Levy that he had dreamed of his family as it had been when he was a small child .
7 The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War .
8 Then he pulled her to him , and kissed her and this time stayed kissing her , and when she did not struggle , he pressed on , and went down to the ground with her and months of longing for her flooded him almost instantly , so that he had no time to swing with her long , cool firmness as he had dreamed of so often , but the instant release in contact with her swept away all his turbulence .
9 At first he assumed that he had dreamed of discussing the pros and cons of murdering Ivor Newley with Dougal .
10 For a moment , as she had stood there , Davide noted how she truly recalled the virgin martyrs he had dreamed of , with her Easter cake as emblem , like the twin mound of her breasts St Agatha bears on a dish in heaven .
11 Damon Hill produced the performance he had dreamed of to give himself a great chance of finishing on the victory podium at the Brazilian Grand Prix .
12 I imagine he had dreamed of doing what he came to do for years before he tightened up his courage . ’
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