Example sentences of "by [adj] he have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park .
2 By 1935 he had joined the Pasadena Junior College as Professor in charge of aeronautics .
3 By 1935 he had returned to England and in the following year married an actress , eight years older than himself , Elsie Elizabeth Mary Gott , a marriage celebrated , since he had been baptized into the Roman Catholic Church , in St James 's , Spanish Place .
4 By 1829 he had succeeded in bringing together most of the country 's cotton-spinners into the Grand General Union of Operative Cotton Spinners , and , although it had disappeared by 1831 , it was an important stage in the heightening of class-consciousness among certain groups of working people .
5 By 1272 he had become precentor of Hereford Cathedral and a canon of St Paul 's ; in 1274 he became dean of St Paul 's .
6 By 1986 he had reverted to freelancing on several national newspapers and magazines before joining the newly launched Independent as rock critic .
7 By 1614 he had eliminated Hideyoshi 's heir and overcome the final military opposition to his hegemony .
8 By 1881 he had built the first fully automatic milling plant at Chester and from that time , mechanically powered roller-milling rapidly supplanted stone-milling in the mass production of flour .
9 By 1933 he had produced nine of these , bearing such titles as The Seven Stabs ( 1927 ) , The Professor 's Poison ( 1928 ) , and The Factory on the Cliff ( 1928 ) .
10 By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities .
11 There is no evidence that Henry de Bray was ever married and by 1284 he had taken orders in the church which were incompatible with married status .
12 By 1202 he had accepted from William Brewer an offer of a fine of 500 marks for the marriage of the daughter and heiress of Hugh of Morville , late hereditary warden of Inglewood forest , with his son Richard or his nephew Richard Gernon , and for having Hugh 's forest wardenship on the same terms .
13 By 1612 he had acquired a territorial estate valued at £6,000 per annum ; he had built a sumptuous palace at Hatfield and two town houses in the Strand — Great Salisbury House and Little Salisbury House ; he had put up an elaborate commercial structure , the New Exchange ; and he had bought potentially valuable building-plots in St Martin 's Lane .
14 By mid-1925 he had organised the Viet-Nam Coach-Mang Thanh-Nien Hoi , Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association , usually called Thanh-Nien .
15 By 1660 he had completed rabbinical studies and by his own account sought the ‘ wisdom of medicine ’ at the University of Leiden .
16 By 1531 he had married Isabel , daughter of Sir John Leigh of Stockwell , Surrey ; they had two sons .
17 Pitt was almost the only British politician ever to think that acquiring colonial possessions was the main purpose of European war ; by 1759 he had reached a position where he could carry out his objective almost at will .
18 It was his great-grandson — the first Henry Overton Wills — who moved to Bristol where by 1786 he had become a partner in a tobacco business .
19 By 1795 significant sections of the Bible had been translated into Bengali and by 1798 he had completed his translation of the whole Scripture .
20 By 1798 he had moved into the business of insurance as a member of Lloyd 's .
21 By 1806 he had purchased ‘ some marble quarries containing two beds of rocks , the one resembling , in colour and effect , the Oriental porphyry , and the other the verd antique ’ .
22 By 1917 he had succeeded in breaking much of the German admirals ' flag code , detecting , with his ear for metre , lines of poetry in the repeated bigrams of a message , which provided a crib .
23 By 1252 he had come to England , married Maud de Lacy , and as co-heir to the Lacy inheritance received some of their Irish lands .
24 By 1065 he had conquered Toledo and made it a Christian — Moorish fief owing allegiance to Leon .
25 Salisbury did not share half the views held by those who accepted his lead , but he was a focus for the increasing Unionist discontent , a respectable public figure acting from the highest motives ; by 1921 he had made the diehard opposition a formidable force .
26 By 1482 he had become an esquire of the king 's body and was made captain and governor of Guernsey .
27 As her relations with Orage deteriorated her influence in the paper declined , and by 1913 he had replaced her column of literary criticism with his own .
28 By 1899 he had completed and tested a 4-hp engine weighing only 40 lb. and had built a triplane in which to mount it .
29 By 1897 he had gone , the mill coming into the hands of John Wyman , who was to remain for more than thirty years .
30 By 1957 he 'd gone .
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