Example sentences of "[adv] he have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly he had picked an immense , fifteen-barrelled pistol out of the pile rejected by the Collector . |
| 2 | Before long he had invented a new science called Gastrotechnology , which he defined simply as the scientific explanation of accepted principles of cookery . |
| 3 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 4 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 5 | Perhaps he had found a new temporary partner by now . |
| 6 | Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars . |
| 7 | And so he had acquired an old-fashioned classical education , with gaps where teachers had been made redundant or classroom chaos had reigned . |
| 8 | So he has followed a dual approach , honouring the supply to the supermarkets while continuing to supply and expand the local market ; it is only in this way that the operation has been able to survive and continue to provide a quality product while supporting a number of local employees and their families . |
| 9 | So he 's got a technical problem . |
| 10 | So he 's got a hundred now . |
| 11 | . Mhm so he 's got a few possibilities . |
| 12 | so he 's got an old banger now , you know , they do n't break into it . |
| 13 | Already he 'd learned an unbelievable amount , she said . |
| 14 | Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals . |
| 15 | There had always been men and once he had cared a great deal about that . |
| 16 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 17 | Well i if his mate comes in , like he 's got a good mate , so if his mate comes in he releases his mate early so if he releases him early , he could be er it takes him about thirty five to forty minutes . |
| 18 | An hour and a half later he has finished a rough plan and elevation . |
| 19 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 20 | More probably he had tapped a fresh source of energy in himself — call it the power of love — which made him feel invincible . |
| 21 | f He has dropped a dozen fresh eggs . |
| 22 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 23 | By now he had become a convinced Zionist . |
| 24 | By now he had become an enthusiastic car owner and repairer , and with his colleagues he formed the Vintage Sports Car Club . |
| 25 | Borrowing on the security of high hopes and honest intentions , as Malcolm Elwin observed in his edition of Haydon 's autobiography and journals ( 1950 ) , and an unsuccessful attempt to live by credit , had brought insolvency and imprisonment , and now he had to make a new start . |
| 26 | But now he 's put a casual bar in as well . |
| 27 | But now he has made a full recovery to the delight of his proud parents , Fred and Denise . |
| 28 | He soon improved his 10-mile time from 1:12 to 1:04:10 , and now he has run a 1:02:50 . |
| 29 | Seen the one with erm er guy makes out he 's got a big bird of prey , he 's got the erm leather glove on |
| 30 | ‘ It turns out he 's got a human rights record as long as your arm , ’ Trish told me . |