Example sentences of "he have [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has said enough to ensure that we will take his point . |
| 2 | He has travelled home to prepare for a World Championship heat in Austria . |
| 3 | As well as acting he has moved also to take on Artistic Directorship of his own company , Compass . |
| 4 | Through The Prince 's Trust and other charities , he has done more to improve their quality of life , particularly the disadvantaged , than almost any other public figure . |
| 5 | Throughout this period , backed by the International Committee for the Defence of Salman Rushdie , he has campaigned tirelessly to have the fatwa reversed . |
| 6 | He has tried unsuccessfully to persuade government that it should devote a fixed proportion of either GDP or the defence budget ( which has some logic as an idea , since the Meteorological Office is funded through the Ministry of Defence ) to research into global warming ; and failure in that respect has reinforced his view that governments across the world find inexpensive words preferable to expensive actions . |
| 7 | He has tried hard to balance his managerial duties with outside interests and not to allow himself to become too much of a workaholic . |
| 8 | In the past 12 months he has improved immensely to become one of the best in the world and to confirm Imran 's earlier forecasts . |
| 9 | Yet I am looking forward to meeting Mr Stratton again , because thus far he has refused point-blank to tell me who the murderer was … ’ |
| 10 | Despite his paucity of years , he has experienced enough to fill a lifetime . |
| 11 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is an honour he has found hard to bear , for he has been acting very strangely even by his own standards . |
| 13 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |
| 14 | She could n't really believe that he 'd weakened sufficiently to accept her presence without further protest . |
| 15 | MR K. Bailey , of Shipley , West Yorkshire , had music running through his head when he sent me a ‘ well done ’ letter , for he attached a verse he 'd composed especially to mark my 40th anniversary and he told me to sing his words to an old song named Marjie … |
| 16 | He said he was called Horn and he 'd popped across to see the Duke of Hamilton or somesuch . |
| 17 | So , he got me handbag and took off with me bottle of DFs and me book from the social and said he 'd give it me back once he 'd cashed enough to pay the bread off . |
| 18 | Charles waited until he 'd recovered sufficiently to continue . |
| 19 | Forester had been perfectly correct , the happenings at Langstone had been gross and illogical ; he 'd chosen simply to deny involvement and ignore them . |
| 20 | Lucy had been saying nothing , letting him speak without interruption ; he 'd seemed almost to forget that she was there , but now he fell silent as if the vividness of the memories inside his head had made the words somehow redundant . |
| 21 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 22 | And sometimes he had to go upstairs to fetch some of his own money to put to it to pay them out . |
| 23 | After Angela Deverill 's cruel treatment of him he had vowed never to have anything to do with women again — other than to slake certain demanding bodily appetites — and then even the appetites had disappeared until McAllister had revived them . |
| 24 | Vologsky had not monitored all his automatic recording , but he had seen enough to know that things were really serious . |
| 25 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 26 | He lay awake in the big double bed where for sixteen years he had striven desperately to create the heirs to inherit his many rich acres , but there had been no children . |
| 27 | But then , when he had leaned forward to brush her cheek , her neck , she had moved back as if he had transgressed , and all his knowledge of her had been shattered by her refusal . |
| 28 | He had to move suddenly to dispel the grip of fear . |
| 29 | Poindexter remembered a meeting one day in the Oval Office , discussing sources of contra money , when he had to move quickly to stop North blurting out that there was money available in places he knew . |
| 30 | Raised in London by his grandparents , he had studied hard to become an oil industry engineer . |