Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What right has he got to know or anything ? |
| 2 | Right has he got one ? |
| 3 | How long has he lived in Harlow ? |
| 4 | It will all depend how long has he owed them it . |
| 5 | How long has he had his car ? |
| 6 | How long has he had er |
| 7 | How long has he owned the tea shop ? |
| 8 | How long has he worked at ffeatherstonehaugh 's , Ellis ? ’ |
| 9 | Not only has he exerted himself tirelessly on teh College 's behalf but he has flung himself with similar enthusiasm into fundraising for the Prince 's Trust and for the Leigh City Technology School in Kent . |
| 10 | Not only has he received a cheque for £82.02 after his successful action against BR in the small claims court . |
| 11 | Congratulations to Mr Howard Bloody Wilkinson , not only has he presided over the transfer of David Batty , the sale of the League to the scum but he now seems intent on pissing off Rocky . |
| 12 | But his happy demeanour is n't likely to last , because not only has he got the move to a new premises in Nantes to handle , along with the updating of the 300 coupe and convertibles he 'll build next year to use Renault 's up-and-coming 24-valve V6 , he 's also got the De la Chapelle Parcours in his hands . |
| 13 | A former commander of the SAS — which would be thrust into the front line in the event of a terrorist attack — said : ‘ Not only has he put the security of our royal family at risk , he has jeopardised the lives of Special Air Service regiment troops . ’ |
| 14 | There had been sightings , his family was powerful enough to keep him hidden and safe from the inevitable hanging ‘ should he show his face on the shores of Albion again' — a favourite phrase of Joseph 's , picked up from a knife-grinder whose preoccupation with Bligh , the Bounty and the Mutiny had almost equalled Joseph 's as witnessed in a fierce contest of informational prowess contested in the snug of the Bull in Lorton where the knife-grinder had eventually conceded defeat and been given several unexpected commissions ( including one from the vicar of Cockermouth who disliked Joseph intensely and produced a cluster of blunt knives and dullest scissors to prove it ) as compensation . |
| 15 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 16 | Goaded beyond endurance by the reference to the headmaster 's wife , to whom she had that morning sent a boy with a high fever , only to have him sent back with iodine on his knuckles , Glenda Grower chimed in again in her rich , ringing voice : |
| 17 | Pictorial evidence that Vologsky was a sexual pervert — enough to get him court-martialled , out of the Service , reviled by his fellows , and possibly imprisoned . |
| 18 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 19 | Never in all their years together had he lacked an ironed shirt or clean underwear . |
| 20 | For him to demand repeated empirical evidence at that stage was doubly unnecessary , for not only had he heard the words of Christ , he had listened to the eye-witness accounts of his fellow disciples . |
| 21 | ‘ Bet Rachel 's ‘ avin ’ a good laugh , ’ he muttered wryly to himself for not only had he volunteered for fire-watching duties , but he had also volunteered the services of Dobbs and the cart since there was news of petrol rationing . |
| 22 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 23 | Not only had he robbed that particular S&L just three days earlier , but the teller at the window was the same person who had handed him the cash at gunpoint . |
| 24 | Not only had he earned the Huge Reward but for once , indeed the only time without Tom 's help , he had outwitted his most terrible enemy and he could not resist cocking a very vulgar snook at Cut-throat Jake as he went over to shake the Dragoon officer by the hand . |
| 25 | Not only had he resigned at a particularly sensitive historical moment , it was also a political fact of life that the Cold War situation literally demanded that no concessions be made to anyone venturing to attack the party ; and the attempt to rehabilitate the " police spy " Nizan was undoubtedly perceived as an attack on the party . |
| 26 | That not only had he stolen her savings , but the money Aunt Jane had left her when she 'd died ? |
| 27 | Not only had he won a match he was desperate to succeed in , he had also earned his Liverpool colours . |
| 28 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 29 | Not only had he managed to manipulate her into going with him to Conway House but also into picking him up from his home and taking him there as well ! |
| 30 | Not only had he paid out money , some of it his own , but he had forgone almost a month of lunches with Mrs Tobias in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ . |