Example sentences of "what he have [vb pp] [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 Waiting to see what he had made of it all .
12 Except what he had made into a story .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 He had no idea what he had done with the diary .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 They than asked what he had done to the police that they had it in for him .
23 And it would amuse the Colonel to hear what he had done to the President 's elite guard .
24 Not long ago , I confronted my brother with what he had done to me .
25 She could n't understand how he dared to show his face after what he had done to Mr Potter .
26 But the memory of what he had done to the corpse was so painful Marek obliterated it from his mind .
27 No matter what he and Bernice had been through , she knew in her heart of hearts that his guilt over what he had done to Ace on Heaven — and before — was a weakness : a button which would always work to throw him off balance when pressed .
28 Drowning the typewriter reminded him of what he had done to the remains of Ivor Newley .
29 Part of him still found it difficult to forget what he had done to Georgina Newley .
30 Even now she could hardly bear to remember him , what he had done to her … his very name .
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