Example sentences of "he have [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has lived on a collective farm in Ukraine since 1945 but was flown back to France by a French television station . |
| 2 | The anthropologist 's appetite for information and his curiosity are boundless , and he is naturally particularly attracted by those avenues of inquiry where the answers come hard , suggesting that he has touched on a sensitive and hence significant vein . |
| 3 | Bob Murray , Sunderland 's chairman , has stressed again this week that Malcolm Crosby has no guarantee of permanently securing the job he has held on a temporary basis since Denis Smith 's sacking in December . |
| 4 | Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were . |
| 5 | And he had to put on a brave face as he manned the tombola stall at a primary school Christmas bazaar where his children Adam , seven , and five-year-old Amber were among the revellers . |
| 6 | What was this sudden panic round his heart ? — as though he had stepped on a rotten floorboard and it had fallen through . |
| 7 | It was just one hundred and seven days since , sailing from exile in Elba with a mere thousand men , he had landed on an empty beach in southern France . |
| 8 | Eden began his premiership in a businesslike fashion even though he had decided on an instant election . |
| 9 | He had to rely on a kind-hearted local butcher who gave him two chickens a week to build up his strength . |
| 10 | We checked all but our oilies , hand baggage and briefcases into the airport lock-ups , and after what he had said about the weather , I was glad to see , when we got to the car desk , that he had laid on a four-wheel-drive land-cruiser . |
| 11 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 12 | He had embarked on a serious and very likely dangerous undertaking which , until its conclusion , must precede anything and everything in his life . |
| 13 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |
| 14 | Mah Bow Tan was confirmed as Minister for Communications , a post he had held on an acting basis since July . |