Example sentences of "[conj] he have [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 2 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 3 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 4 | He confessed to Beaton all that he had done at the behest of the English king , including ‘ the suppression of sundry abbeys and friaries ’ . |
| 5 | After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 6 | In Aden Nizan rediscovered his emotional strength , rediscovered , in short , the personality that he had relinquished at the age of twelve , at the moment of his father 's personal crisis . |
| 7 | While Jimmy stood at the reception desk counter , both arms spread out on it backwards in the same pose that he had adopted at the bar counter earlier that evening , Duvall simply stood two feet by his side , watching him . |
| 8 | For example , his belief that the leader 's job was to set a policy and leave his subordinates to implement it — the belief that he had expressed at the War College in the 1920s ( see page 4 ) — got him into deep water in Algeria . |
| 9 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 10 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
| 11 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 12 | As Jaq lay in his sleep-cell at quarter-light with the trunk sealed in the nearby oubliette , he recalled all that he had learned at the conclave . |
| 13 | what is that room that he 's got at the back ? |
| 14 | Although I remain strongly opposed to any closer political or economic union with Europe , will my right hon. Friend accept that the leadership that he has shown at the Maastricht conference and his toughness in the negotiations clearly display that he is the only party leader competent to govern this country during the next few years ? |
| 15 | Having delayed longer than he had intended at the barrow , he even pumped the pedals on the downhill sections , always anxious about the safety of the curious evidence in his saddle bag . |
| 16 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 17 | If he can produce no grand reason for abandoning left-wing Labour attitudes , people will be forgiven if they conclude that the change was cynical and opportunistic and that Mr Kinnock is more interested in gaining office than in doing anything in particular once he has arrived at the top . |
| 18 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 19 | He went through his whole performance second by second , from the moment Westerman had introduced him and he had waved at the camera , to the moment Westerman had summed up , and he had told him it was absolutely fascinating . |
| 20 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 21 | If he had braked at the collision he would have slid straight past the scene . |
| 22 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 23 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 24 | I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish . |
| 25 | For the abrupt , hasty manner of Pound 's criticism seems to some readers to carry the implication ( to which Pound in fact did not subscribe ) that no critic is worth listening to unless he has laboured at the maker 's workbench ; that all worthwhile criticism of stories comes from story-tellers , that only poets are worth listening to about poems . |
| 26 | But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long . |
| 27 | Earlier today she 'd been jealous because he 'd smiled at the three women in a way he 'd never smiled at her . |
| 28 | I admire Mac because he has remained at the top of British sprinting for a decade through a lot of hard work . |
| 29 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 30 | Filmmakers were rarely imported from outside ( Thorold Dickinson , who was allowed in to make Secret People in 1952 , could be regarded as an ‘ old boy ’ since he had worked at the studio during Basil Dean 's time ) and , with five directors responsible for two-thirds of the films made at the studio between 1942 and 1955 , there was little competition inside the studio , and no exposure to fresh ideas from outside . |