Example sentences of "he have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 'E 's got a good look on — it must be a bit o' good land . ’
2 ‘ Well , there 's just Mr Foster , 'e 's got the other two rooms on this landin' .
3 God 's love for and claim on man are worked out through a judgement and condemnation which disclose a profound alienation and estrangement between man and God , a contradiction in which man has attempted to break away from the tie with God , so that God 's claim on him has become a consuming fire .
4 Perhaps as a result of his unpopularity , speculation about him has taken a new turn .
5 And I said ‘ yes ’ , and I reminded him that it was against the law for him to have possessed a wild animal in the first place , and he shrugged .
6 Rosenberg 's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry , but his tone is different : more impersonal , informal , ironic , and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon [ qq.v . ] .
7 Why , then , was John Titford a member of this glorified Home Guard when , at the age of 23 , we might have expected him to have joined the regular army or to have found his way somehow into the militia ?
8 She had seen Billy enter the dining rooms in front of her as she returned from the park with Rachel , and the sight of him had sent a little shiver through her body .
9 And although Thornton seemed the obvious choice to the outside world , relationships with him had reached a new low in October 1985 .
10 She tried to move away , disturbed by the realisation that her feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change even though she could n't quite define it .
11 This new Rose who had descended upon him had joined the gaudy throng , for reasons she would n't divulge , and had lost some of her individuality .
12 For one thing , many of those who had opposed him had joined the Royalist army and had been killed in the war .
13 Gubbins was educated at Battersea Polytechnic , but was taken away at sixteen when the headmaster told his mother that educating him had proved a hopeless task .
14 Formerly , Alick Nkhata and men like him had adapted the western popular music of the time , particularly country and western music , which they married with traditional melodies and themes .
15 To the BBC SSO , whom he holds in great affection — he first came to Scotland in 1988 for their Festival of New Chinese Music — he has gifted a new work , Death and the Fire : a dialogue with Paul Klee , to be premiered on 27 March .
16 First he has to create a neutral police force .
17 The artist has achieved more than that though ; he has created a real group .
18 Although he is a newcomer to sailing and the America 's Cup , he has created a huge syndicate of 200 people and spent a staggering £1.4 million per month on his camapign for the past year-and-a-half .
19 A groundswell of media opinion is pushing for Gavin Hastings as captain and his off-the-field credentials — particularly the manner in which he has created a happy spirit in the Scottish camp — give him a head start over England 's Will Carling .
20 Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ?
21 Does the hon. Gentleman believe that when he has created an independent Scottish state it will have a separate currency , or would he go for the ecu ?
22 A shy man from a conservative Catholic family ( his father , ex-President Antonio Segni , belonged to the right wing of the Christian Democrats ) , he has rallied a wide range of supporters to his reform campaign : free-thinking radicals , communists , a Catholic bishop , trade unionists , the influential Rome daily La Repubblica and the top ranks of Confindustria , Italy 's employers ' association , as well as Mr Orlando himself .
23 But , given the low base from which the Liberal Democrat party began its struggle for recognition , he has achieved a great deal .
24 In Germany a child proceeds to the next year only when he has achieved a satisfactory standard in every subject of the curriculum .
25 Not only has the right hon. Gentleman made an idiot of himself by that intervention , but he has achieved the interesting feat of misquoting himself .
26 Insiders say he has transplanted a large tract of greenery into the leaderene 's speech , which will dwell on her commitment to saving the world from global warming .
27 As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump .
28 Lilly believes that humans and dolphins can communicate with each other despite their physical differences , and he has constructed a complex computer system to send translated messages between human and dolphin .
29 He has devised a new C4 show , The Dice Game , loosely based on the idea in the book by Luke Rhinehart .
30 ( It 's true , of course , that Sir Fred Hoyle has been writing recently about Earthly plagues that have originated in space , but he has devised an ingenious way of converting this objection into a virtue .
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