Example sentences of "what he have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The consequence of this damage was , on this theory , that when the patient heard speech he could understand it but could not transmit what he had heard to the brain region for speech production , and so could not repeat it .
3 Nor is the subject referred to again until nearly two years later , when he surprised everyone by suddenly disclosing what he had heard at the Council and proposed to carry out fully in future .
4 He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes .
5 Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet .
6 " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew .
7 He only knew what he had heard from the servants .
8 What he had heard from Harry Chiltern was disturbing .
9 Art had always tried to give back what he had gained in life , he felt grateful for what he felt he had to be given , some said he 'd achieved a great deal , but in his heart he felt fate had dealt him with him gently and you have to make the most of the lo of the card life deals you .
10 Henry II spent a large part of a long career campaigning in France ; but his wars added very little to what he had gained by marriage .
11 So he er he was most upset was poor Ben so I did explain to him that what he had to do with policemen if they were n't feeling too good was to try and avoid saying things er quite as straightforwardly as that .
12 The tragedies of miscegenation have never been simple — ever since Othello did what he had to do to Desdemona .
13 Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour .
14 Waiting to see what he had made of it all .
15 Except what he had made into a story .
16 Huy found that , during much of what he had to listen to over the next few minutes , his only defence against the temptation to break the young man over his knee was to invoke the Horus within him .
17 And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure .
18 Stephen Ross ( no relation ) , a director with 3i in Birmingham , takes up the story : ‘ We knew Alistair Ross and respected what he had done with the other poultry business .
19 He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it .
20 He had no idea what he had done with the diary .
21 Umpire Bird called Waqar for a second over-shoulder-high bouncer to Smith in his next over , and signalled what he had done with laudable clarity .
22 Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it .
23 Shinwell had been heard to declare that " he held the seamen of the Clyde in the hollow of his hand " and that English ports were also dissatisfied with Wilson 's autocratic methods and ready to break away if he did not tell them what he had done with their money .
24 She felt stunned , as if what he had done to her had somehow paralysed not only her limbs but her senses too , leaving her tense .
25 In each lull between contractions memories of James tormented her , and with each new onslaught of pain she mentally tried to inflict the agony on him , cursing him for what he had done to her .
26 They than asked what he had done to the police that they had it in for him .
27 And it would amuse the Colonel to hear what he had done to the President 's elite guard .
28 Not long ago , I confronted my brother with what he had done to me .
29 She could n't understand how he dared to show his face after what he had done to Mr Potter .
30 But the memory of what he had done to the corpse was so painful Marek obliterated it from his mind .
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