Example sentences of "[noun sg] he have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years Fred Workman and I had kept in touch and in a note with his 1973 Christmas card he had mentioned Edna 's rise to fame and fortune , and gave me her address . |
| 2 | He had been a friend of Lawrence of Arabia ; he knew Ottoline Morrell , at whose house Garsington Manor he had met Virginia Woolf , Bertrand Russell and D. H. Lawrence , among others . |
| 3 | In the film , Rea plays an IRA man who becomes a little too involved with the British soldier he has helped kidnap and , in a confused act of penance after his death , tracks down the soldier 's wife back in London . |
| 4 | To stake out part of his frontier he had spent Christmas 842 with Abbot Hugh at St-Quentin , and then moved on to Valenciennes . |
| 5 | At Owens College he had met Charles Frederick Cross [ q.v. ] and the two chemists joined forces at the Jodrell laboratory , Kew Gardens , with the aim of exploring the chemistry of cellulose , the major constituent of wood , cotton , flax , and paper . |
| 6 | When asked how it was done , Ruysch simply said that the corpse had been put in cold water for a day or so , the aorta and venae cavae were then opened , the blood cleared out and the whole put in hot water for four to six hours ; for the injection he had used suet or tallow in the winter , and added wax , turpentine and resin in summer . |
| 7 | After marriage he had got fatter , and less lively . |
| 8 | Under such influence he 'd heard rationalists confess their devotion to tabloid astrologies ; heard atheists lay claim to heavenly visitations ; heard tales of psychic siblings , and prophetic deathbed pronouncements . |
| 9 | Through Roszak 's influence he had read Thomas Merton and Kenneth Rexroth , the anarchists Paul Goodman and Alex Comfort , and had absorbed the new literature of the civil rights movement , Liberation magazine . |
| 10 | During his work he had driven trains carrying many notable people , including Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 11 | It is n't necessary to tell you that the West Riding owes its position in the vanguard of educational thinking and practice to a few people , of whom Basil was one of the most distinguished , and the work he has done will still go on . |
| 12 | First , in his experimental work he has achieved performances that match existing systems . |
| 13 | With his wife Thecia he had taken houses in Pottergate , Lincoln , on a repairing lease from c .1245–8 , with rights of inheritance . |
| 14 | The tsar was wrong to think that he could rely on payment for the help he had given Austria in 1849 . |
| 15 | During the campaign he has had morning press conferences complete with a TV-friendly backdrop , typed notes and a press secretary permanently on hand . |
| 16 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
| 17 | While dozing he had dreamed , and in the dream he had seen Buddie brandishing his long-bladed knife and passing like an avenging angel through crowds of jostling raucous birds in the turkey-pen . |
| 18 | He almost told her that he had once lived a year with a girl he had married navvy-style , over the anvil , and had got her with child before she ran away from him . |
| 19 | He had fulfilled , he had discharged his mission , he had preached the gospel he had seen men and women coming to Jesus Christ , he had seen the mi mi miracles happening he had baptized those who have put faith in Jesus , and now , you see , it 's not a one man show , there was , there was a leadersh , there was a team involved here . |
| 20 | Dixon 's mention of clothes had pulled his mind back to the discovery of Kemp 's body , and he asked Lewis much the same question he had asked Max , receiving much the same answers . |
| 21 | On three separate occasions before the war he had taken part in manoeuvres dedicated to the capture of Verdun , and each had ended with the conclusion that the attack would have to be made simultaneously on both banks to obviate the danger of flanking fire . |
| 22 | At the end of the Crimean War he had convinced Alexander that if peace were to last Russia needed a major figure as her ambassador in Paris . |
| 23 | Almost from the moment he had seen Jinneth , Riven thought , and then scowled , putting the idea out of his head as though it were unlucky . |
| 24 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |
| 25 | The moment he 'd entered Rose Bower the smell of fresh paint had assailed his nostrils . |
| 26 | I wondered at what point he had got religion . |
| 27 | On recovery he had helped form 302 Polish Squadron during the Battle of Britain , claiming two victories and a third shared plus two probables while with this unit . |
| 28 | During the Christmas dinner Andrew had kept a low profile , as it were , but in the evening he had played host under the admiring gaze of Mrs Emma Funnell . |
| 29 | In the process he had lost sight of Jack Stone , and Stone had slipped away into the night . |
| 30 | ‘ An estate agent submitted a gadget he had invented years before which was sitting up in his loft , but he needed the money so tried his luck and sent it in . ’ |