Example sentences of "he has [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 2 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 3 | The economic issues that he has menioned exist in many other countries and have implications for our position . |
| 4 | He has fooled even us with his pleasant talk to the Men all these years . |
| 5 | Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters " Union , regarded the existence of the acts as " a tremendous millstone round the neck of the local artisan , which has depressed and debased him to the earth , every act which he has attempted every measure that he has devised to keep up or raise his wages , he has been told was illegal : the whole force of the civil power and influence of the district has been exerted against him because he was acting illegally " . |
| 6 | He has pledged to give greater state help to the estimated 37 million people not covered by health insurance in the USA . |
| 7 | He has pledged to increase support by 10 per cent above the rate of inflation for the next three years . |
| 8 | Next year , he has pledged to increase the present company car taxing scales by 8pc , but from 1995 drivers will pay tax according to the manufacturer 's list price for each car . |
| 9 | He has pledged spending cuts and a crackdown on tax evasion : a tall order for Italy 's parliament , many of whose members fear austerity could further damage their popularity , with elections looming this year . |
| 10 | This year he has endeavoured to compete in as many Challenge Tour events as he can . |
| 11 | I have found that if you keep still , if you keep quiet , then the other person feels he has to continue talking . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received urging him to take new action to combat racist attacks . |
| 13 | It is common for a Member who has asked a question on an important matter but who is dissatisfied with the answer that he has received to give notice that he wishes to raise the matter again on the adjournment and to do so . |
| 14 | Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others , faithfully administering God 's grace in its various forms . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations he has received calling for the introduction of internment without trial ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 16 | CUBA offered yesterday to treat the pop idol Michael Jackson for a skin disease he has said afflicts him . |
| 17 | I assume , therefore , that what he has said represents the majority view within his party . |
| 18 | Although not exactly stuck for words , nothing that he has said has yet entered the language . |
| 19 | The terms of the motion may not be welcome to all hon. Members , but what he has to say deserves to be aired and I hope that the House will ensure that he has an opportunity to make his point today . |
| 20 | While little of what he has to say relates directly to rhetoric , the account of the similarities across cultures shows what structural components are required for such a broadcast to be taken seriously ; to attempt alternatives is to undermine the force of the predictions . |
| 21 | I stand on his heel and ask the others if he has gone to sleep or what , and one of them responds on cue and asks what happened to the bozo in the front room . |
| 22 | ‘ I imagine he has gone to say goodbye to Claudine , ’ she announced , although Jenna had not dared to ask where he was . |
| 23 | He has gone to see Madame Verveine at the nursing-home . ’ |
| 24 | But the case is widely referred to as ‘ the Baltimore affair ’ because of the surprising lengths to which he has gone to defend Dr Imanishi-Kari . |
| 25 | One of the critics concerned is the director of a choir in the best Oxbridge tradition ; the other is a British composer who finds the Iberian peninsula so attractive that he has gone to live there . |
| 26 | I guess he has gone to switch on . |
| 27 | Indeed , callers to his home in the Hampshire village of Whiteparish were greeted with a sarcastic telephone message , which said : ‘ I am sorry Robin can not come to the phone — he has gone to have his foot amputated . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ No , Father , neither do I. He has gone creeping about us like a very sick man since that night , in horror of his own act . |
| 29 | ‘ He has gone to find you a room , ’ said the Feldwebel , sitting down in front of the fire and stretching his legs . |
| 30 | He has gone to meet ordinary people . |