Example sentences of "he have [vb pp] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has sought to make a political attack on me , and I shall reply in the same way because the right hon. Gentleman has been highly selective in his summary of the case . |
| 2 | He arrived late yesterday afternoon , it seems , and he has offered to give a little recital to anyone on the island who wishes to attend . |
| 3 | A claim against an expert may be that : ( 1 ) he has failed to carry out the reference properly ; or ( 2 ) he has failed to deliver a timely decision ; or ( 3 ) he has not followed the parties ' instructions : or ( 4 ) he has not kept to the standard of skill and care of his profession . |
| 4 | But he has failed to command a regular place during Graeme Souness 's reign as manager and the signing of Nigel Clough looks to have been the final straw for Ronny . |
| 5 | Because he has failed to offer a clear-cut criterion for the rejection of any coherent research programme , or for choosing between rival research programmes , one might wish to say , with Feyerabend , that Lakatos 's methodology is ‘ a verbal ornament , as a memorial to happier times when it was still thought possible to run a complex and often catastrophic business like science by following a few simple and ‘ rational ’ rules ’ . |
| 6 | I have used pragmatic principles derived from Grice ( 1975 ) already , but the maxims of quality and quantity are of immediate concern to us here because , in scene eleven , Anderson fails to provide the chairman with an adequate explanation for why he has chosen to give a new paper . |
| 7 | The next time Seve played after his Open win he was at St Mellion and playing the worst he 'd played to shoot a 79 . |
| 8 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 9 | I think he 'd tried to make a certain birdie but he 'd really come unstuck . |
| 10 | He had been a thin , light-framed boy , and he had grown to become a lean , wiry man ; the years of life on merchant ships , and then in Australia , had left his skin looking well-used , like soft and fine-grained — but slightly distressed — leather . |
| 11 | He had wanted to publish a full-length article from me in The Criterion ; and in expressing the hope that this sort of work would be ‘ a help ’ , he was , with his knowledge of the therapeutic value of work , perfectly right . |
| 12 | In fairness to Sarah he had wanted to devote a whole day to her , but the pressure of his work had made it impossible , and he had been forced to settle for an afternoon wedding , following a Governors ' meeting , so that he and his bride could depart for Chertsey on the last train . |
| 13 | He said he had wanted to see a national statistics council to act as a protective agency 10 years ago . |
| 14 | Levi explains that he had amused himself by writing a ‘ Western ’ and that he had wanted to write a hopeful book . |
| 15 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |
| 16 | Romantic he certainly was , but I feel there was a deeper layer of consciousness from which he had decided to take a calculated risk , fully believing he would survive . |
| 17 | He had decided to play a little game and risk putting pressure on the person he was convinced had committed the murder — Jim Lancaster , the man who had taken his jacket and trousers to the dry cleaner 's the day after the murder to have some stains removed . |
| 18 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 19 | However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education . |
| 20 | Hoping he had decided to make a clean sweep and tell Marc everything , Sarella waited to hear what he had to say . |
| 21 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 22 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 23 | He had dared to slaughter a sacred cow . |
| 24 | In 1947 – 48 he had continued to advocate a decentralized Germany , closer to the pre-1871 state than to the Weimar state of 1919 . |
| 25 | According to his letter to Puchberg , he had tried to organize a further series of subscription concerts to improve his finances , but when the list came back only the faithful Baron van Swieten 's name was on it . |
| 26 | With five of his supporters he had tried to hold a street-corner meeting , heckled by a group of twenty onlookers , some of whom began to sing the ‘ Internationale ’ . |
| 27 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 28 | Grunte had run into him on the forecourt of one of his garages where he had come to buy a second-hand Sierra . |
| 29 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought dismissal the appropriate reaction , as he had refused to obey a reasonable request from a senior member of staff . ’ |