Example sentences of "he have [verb] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in order to try to keep some of America 's weaker carriers in the air he has decided to increase the limit on the stake a foreign investor can hold in an American airline from 25% to 49% . |
| 2 | Interviews are a chore he has to do to sell the show . |
| 3 | Johnny Rogan himself is at a loss to explain what he has done to provoke the wrath of the former Smith , while Morrissey says that the book contains certain inaccuracies about his Mancunian past . |
| 4 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 5 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 6 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 7 | In particular , he has sought to make the desert bloom , damming its rivers and plundering its scant resources of water to create neat , green fields and , more recently , the harmonious , man-made landscapes of the golf course . |
| 8 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 9 | Having now worked in both sides of the oil business , Morgan says that he has come to appreciate the importance of high quality cooperation , whether it 's at Grangemouth Refinery or in transporting and marketing oil in the US . |
| 10 | He has got to do the rescuing . |
| 11 | Sadly , it seems that he has failed to grasp the relationship between the district council and the board . |
| 12 | According to article 3 of the Swiss civil code , ‘ no person can plead bona fides in any case where he has failed to exercise the degree of care required by the circumstances ’ . |
| 13 | Although Mr Kinnock has modernised Labour and ditched many of its vote-losing socialist policies , he has failed to convince the country to put its trust in him despite the country suffering the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 14 | I know that the hon. Member has shown considerable interest in the case that is the subject of the debate , although I find it surprising that he has chosen to raise the matter in this way . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what measures he has taken to improve the working of the cold weather payments scheme . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he has taken to enhance the security of taxi drivers and other transport workers in the Province . |
| 17 | Bradley admits he has tried to increase the size of the LAPD by 1,000 . |
| 18 | But he says : ‘ He has lost touch with something wonderful — he has forgotten to let the child within him take flight . |
| 19 | Johnston said : ‘ We met with the man we want last night and he has agreed to join the club . |
| 20 | He has agreed to take the appointment because his two sons are now grown up . |
| 21 | In view of these market changes we would ask the Chancellor to utilise that degree of flexibility he has retained to reduce the degree of excise duty discrimination against spirits . |
| 22 | And should the inventor then fail in the business he has established to exploit the invention which his employer was unwilling or unable to utilise , he may be left so disillusioned that his talents and abilities are ultimately lost to the country as a whole . |
| 23 | He has written a five page article about his illness in a Darlington medical journal and to celebrate his gradual return to good health he has started to learn the piano . |
| 24 | The Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy apologised to me earlier for the fact that he has had to leave the Chamber because he is due to make a speech on clean coal technology elsewhere in London . |
| 25 | ‘ But unlike me , he has managed to land the type of player my teams always lacked — a 25-goals a season striker . |
| 26 | But he has promised to end the association , so that is the end of that . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd bent to kiss the girl , warmly , said a laughing farewell , and weaved his way across to her through the crowd , his eyes faintly amused but cool as he assessed her contortions with the unruly material . |
| 28 | Davide was disappointed : he 'd hoped to sell the coin for a lira or so . |
| 29 | In discussion , he said he 'd been here once before , and he 'd gone to visit the government . |
| 30 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |