Example sentences of "he have [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brook has not simply plonked the cameras in front of his original production : he has re-conceived it in filmic terms , making obvious concessions to cinematic literalism while retaining the sense of wonder . |
| 2 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 3 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |
| 4 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 6 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 7 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 8 | But could he have heard it from this room ? |
| 9 | Nor could he have said it in 1985 , when the uprating was 35p per child below inflation . |
| 10 | They refused point blank and he had to take it to another garage . |
| 11 | Now , after several hours of teasing pursuit , he had lost it in these hell-lit tunnels . |
| 12 | He had to explain it to this man . |
| 13 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 14 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 15 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 16 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 17 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |
| 18 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 19 | Yeah , he had to sing it like that and then , then there 's , there 's only two of them , you know and erm , the , er , other , the other one , he 's a black man yeah , and he goes who 's that big gorilla in the back and he 's pointing to me . |
| 20 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 21 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 22 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 23 | He had not only preserved the room , he had cleaned it with meticulous care and provided fresh flowers in the little glass spill . |
| 24 | He had watched it in early May , as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton . |
| 25 | And DeVore , hearing it , had felt he had used it like some secret password ; some token of mutual understanding . |
| 26 | Haverford was clear on the answer to that one ; he had mentioned it in several of his ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 27 | The crusade against the cinema had never caught the imagination of the parish since he had launched it with such lofty aspirations five — or was it six ? — months ago . |
| 28 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 29 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 30 | He had avoided it with all the fuss going on but wanted to see the Bookman once more before the expedition started . |