Example sentences of "he have [verb] [prep] [verb] a " in BNC.
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1 | He has also drawn the attention of the House to the difficulties he has faced in arranging a proper investigation or a change in BR 's management 's attitude towards an employee . |
2 | He has triumphed by attacking a system that sucks the marrow from the body of the industry to leave only the flab and gristle of tired ideas . |
3 | Especially rich in irony is Le Prestre et Alison , " The Priest and Alison " , in which a lecherous priest believes he has succeeded in bedding a beautiful young girl but has had , in the darkness , an elderly whore substituted for her . |
4 | and an increase in front-line staff of about 28 per cent. , he has succeeded in securing a yearly increase of 42 per cent . |
5 | More recently he has embarked on making a record of all the cathedrals of France . |
6 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
7 | ‘ What would he have gained by joining a group like that ? ’ |
8 | He had to set about making a living as a free-lance musician . |
9 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
10 | But now he was a naturalised Kiwi , and he set about breaking Tufnell 's rhythm , as he had done in making a century when the left-armer made his county debut at Worcester six years earlier . |
11 | The confidence he had gained from having a loving wife was being undermined by a feeling of rejection from the public . |
12 | At other times — especially in the beginning — he had succeeded in arousing a desire in her that matched his own , and that had been almost as frightening . |
13 | Joe 's absence almost certainly meant that he had succeeded in persuading a girl called Jill into going out with him . |
14 | Although Sharir did not confirm his defection until April 7 , Peres informed President Chaim Herzog on April 4 that he had succeeded in gaining a majority and intended to request that the Knesset be reconvened from its Passover recess for a vote of confidence . |
15 | The hills he had come to had a clear line running south-west to northeast and he turned that way . |
16 | Phillip ca n't cos he 's got ta miss a go ! |
17 | Our Neil 's got bigger feet than her and then he 's a one , he 's in a one already but he 's got ta have a two in bumper boots . |
18 | He 's got ta get a generator . |
19 | He 's , he 's got ta get a , get a place though somewhere else when he gets married . |