Example sentences of "that he have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 His immense desire to have something outside himself that he could look up to and worship expressed itself not merely in that idealistic phase that he 'd just gone through , but in his attitude towards mathematical truth .
2 ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 .
3 She 'd been waiting outside his office for the best part of three hours when his secretary came to tell her that he 'd just phoned in .
4 A door stood half-open , showing a mirror-image view of the room that he 'd just left .
5 serious complaint that he 'd just got .
6 Leaving aside his feelings and motives , her feelings were so intense that if she could blot out the knowledge that he 'd just used her , the two nights spent in his arms would glow like jewels in the ashes of the years .
7 He did n't sleep , despite being tired , but sat up into the small hours with an object of study that he 'd previously dismissed as fanciful nonsense : Chant 's final letter .
8 He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her .
9 He could n't understand it … but he knew that he 'd narrowly avoided a serious shock , and there was no way in which he 'd be prepared to touch the box again .
10 If he had , she could have persuaded herself that none of it had been her fault — that he 'd physically forced her into making love .
11 She reflected indignantly that he 'd already eaten a substantial helping of bacon and eggs about three o'clock that morning .
12 Did n't alter the fact that he 'd deliberately sought her out because of her parents .
13 Little Gino , whose ambition had always been to be taller than four foot ten , had got a little too interested when it was his turn and even in the candlelight we could all see that he 'd deliberately got his charm bracelet tangled in one of Sorrel 's suspenders .
14 Then Clare was vexed that he 'd almost made her laugh .
15 There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered , rarely used now that he 'd almost given up .
16 I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’
17 Carson realised with a guilty start that he 'd almost wandered uninvited into the bedroom , all his attention on the conversation outside .
18 Whether it was when he 'd scored 10 or at some other delicate fulcrum in his innings that the Smallholder decided that he 'd sufficiently built his innings and could start unleashing his shots I know not , but the incontrovertible fact was that by tea he had 34 to his name , including five boundaries .
19 Let me give another very recent example while these rather alarming , in some ways , events were going on in Arkensaw , the London Times — not the Sunday Times now — had as a centre page article by a distinguished cosmologist , Fred Hoyle , announcing to a startled world that he 'd suddenly acquired some doubts about evolution .
20 He 'd say that he 'd suddenly remembered he had to go to the theatre with his family , or to a friend 's engagement party .
21 Ted was having trouble picking out a shirt ; his sister had given him a couple of new ones last Christmas , but this was the first time that he 'd really had to study them with regard to presentability .
22 That he 'd never wanted you ?
23 Sam was glad that he 'd never invited him to share Evelyn 's secrets .
24 But he rode hard to the end of the track and when he reached Baby Boy 's white cross he hesitated , then he turned right , into the mountains , something that he 'd never done before .
25 The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place .
26 He looked along this end of Mrs Wright 's house that he 'd never seen before .
27 The sheep had gone strangely quiet and there was a queer thundering noise that he 'd never heard before .
28 Charles hedged by saying that he 'd never imagined the BEF would be at all like this .
29 They will go about the city in the weeks to come , and Phil will point out things behind doorways and up courtyards that he 'd never noticed , and explain how the whole set-up of the city is really a conspiracy , and read out public notices in a voice that makes them suddenly ridiculous , and persuade him to believe preposterous stories .
30 There was , however , an instinct in him when it came to Judith that he 'd never experienced with any other woman .
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