Example sentences of "he have [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 2 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 3 | He has to weigh up the possibility of a conviction for something , as opposed to the accused walking free . |
| 4 | But if that is n't bad enough , it is n't scheduled until April 24 — which means he has to sit out the inter-provincials . |
| 5 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 6 | So far he has tracked down the chemical 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid . |
| 7 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 8 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 9 | But after a visit to his home by a senior officer of Cleveland Police , he has painted out the symbols . |
| 10 | After he has killed off the whole lot of them in various ways , he shouts in triumph , ‘ Jesus , I got 'em all ! ’ |
| 11 | Using traditional measures of religiosity , he has pointed out the apparent failure of English catholic schools to produce better catholics and fewer ex-catholics than state or other schools , and has inferred the likelihood of the same for Irish schools . |
| 12 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 13 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 14 | They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle . |
| 15 | He has taken up the challenge to lead . |
| 16 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 17 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 18 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 19 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 20 | By the halfway stage he has taken on the slightly desperate , bloodshot aspect of the tragic hero about to be engulfed by the forces he has unleashed : ‘ I shall resolutely ignore everything but the skeletal essentials of my theme , ’ he declares ( ‘ Off , off you lendings ! ’ ) . |
| 21 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 22 | He has drawn up the list of items below . |
| 23 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 24 | More news about Jack is the announcement that he has handed over the reins of the Midland Embalming School to John Davis who , apart from being a trade embalmer has a varied background in nursing , counselling , laboratory work and school teaching . |
| 25 | There are other examples that underline the folly of this increasingly popular practice : Alec Stewart 's average in Tests in which he has picked up the gauntlets lags behind that of Jack Russell ; Richard Blakey 's batting has gone into reverse since he succeeded David Bairstow at Yorkshire . |
| 26 | But the issue of Somerset House , which he has put on the political agenda , will not fade . |
| 27 | He has set out the terms of his covenant and they have been agreed . |
| 28 | His shirt is frayed at the sleeves where he has rolled back the cuffs , his skin shows brown down the open front , there are small dark hairs , a glistening drop of sweat . |
| 29 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 30 | But this was said after he 'd hung up the phone . |